I've always felt like the book had all these different things thrown in, so that it was the author's mindset that kind of kept it all together. But that does mean that on some level all the characters sort of share the same mind. So the Sorting really does Sort out the good for the bad--the bad side is totally wrong in the way they understand the good side, but the good side's judgments of the bad are usually pretty right. I mean...that's a common thing that good has the imagination to understand evil and not vice versa, but it's more than that. There really is a right way and a wrong way to be, and if you're the wrong way you're kind of stuck. Harry's completely betrayed by his caretakers, but it bounces off him, leaving him totally cool.
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I've always felt like the book had all these different things thrown in, so that it was the author's mindset that kind of kept it all together. But that does mean that on some level all the characters sort of share the same mind. So the Sorting really does Sort out the good for the bad--the bad side is totally wrong in the way they understand the good side, but the good side's judgments of the bad are usually pretty right. I mean...that's a common thing that good has the imagination to understand evil and not vice versa, but it's more than that. There really is a right way and a wrong way to be, and if you're the wrong way you're kind of stuck. Harry's completely betrayed by his caretakers, but it bounces off him, leaving him totally cool.