If your kids went to Hogwarts would you let them be in Slytherin?

[Blandmum]

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dh says he would

we are new to harry potter (dd2 obsessed, it passed dd1 by)

I really dont fancy hufflepuff htough

would they have a choice?

gawd could you imagine if you let the sorting hat choose form groups - truly the group of death.

and can you imagine their names?

no
it is the goldman sachs of hogwarts
tell dh to wash his mouth out with soap

You woudln't really get a choice would you - but probably if your child did get into slytherin then you would be happy with it I think as you would be likely to be a slytherin type anyway.

I think.

Or would you home ed ?

I think that they are all home edded prior to going to Hogwarts.

I tease our kids that dh and I went to hogwarts (they filmed part of it where we went to uni). I tell the kids that dh was a Hufflepuff!

You wouldnt have a choice tbh would you. And if you got picked for Slytherine I get the feeling you would in fact be that way inclined and have no objections to the house whatsoever.

Yes, because a) someone has to be and b) nowt wrong with a bit of pure evil in your life

bwahahahahahahahahahahahah

ahem

dh and I were quite gripped by the first film and book

then we saw some of Film 4 - goblet of fire - lst night

was pantsola

dd2 and us loved the grandeur of hogwarts - goblet of fire is like bev hills 901202002

tell me the books are better

If a parent disagreed with the Sorting Hat could they go to appeal?

I think my DCs would be in different houses. DD1 is very kind but also brave and a sports queen so Hufflepuff or Gryffindor for her. DS1 is really clever, Ravenclaw me thinks. DD2 is a selfish and deviously clever monster who would definitely be requiring green robes.

Loving the concept of parental sorting-hat appeals.

I think that is the beauty of the Hogwarts system, in fact - the decision of the sorting hat is final. No appeals. Saves a lot of heart-ache!

Books are a billion, zillion times better Enid. Can't emphasise that enough!

The books are, IMHO, much better.

Film 5 is the best of the films

Yes certainly. Should very much enjoy parents evenings with Snape.

dd1 prime candidate for hufflepuff

omg, I have a certain 'thing' about Snape

Is it just me?

Mine would be in the one for brainy kids.

Ravenclaw isn't it?

If it were me, I would be in the house for big-heads!

Only if they got me a night with Lucius Malfoy as played by Jason Isaacs.

pesonally i think the cupboard under the stairs was sufficint

My Mum, grandma and me all fancied Alan Rickman, maybe this madness runs in families. Mum sadly passed on now so can't comment but I have a real thing for both Snape and Jason Isaacs, does that make me evil????

I too have a thing for Alan Rickman... I think it's the sneer

What exactly is wrong with Slytherin?.

I really like Snape too. I think its his brooding piercing eyes that i just lurve

It's the voice for me -

i would not allow my kids to go to hogwarts.

a) no anti-bullying policy
b)dubious members of staff
c)no appeals from group sorting
d) no evidence of pastoral care

basically just an old fashioned boarding school ....