there's this incredible tension between hierarchy making & breaking that compels human behavior at all levels
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the Harry Potter books hooked young readers early with a particular social play — first at Ollivanders, and then with the sorting hat: your wand chooses you; you are destined for a house. Other stories (e.g. the popular Divergent series) play on individuality & system-breaking
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Right, but the hat wouldn't granted it if he hadn't "belonged." Thus, the hat in the first place, and thus the zillions of HP quizzes that populate the web. Everyone knows how they want to be sorted, but they need a hat or algorithm to give them permission https://twitter.com/fieryfalliblist/status/1075114998660259842 …
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Ha true!! - different topos. One is the Chosen One (Harry, Neo, Luke, etc.) who disrupts system by accepting crazy mission to defeat the Old Bad w Big Talent. The other starts "earlier", with hero first embedded into unbearable system.... Both are deep-seated in us I guess?
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We want Good Systems to train us to fight Bad Systems. And we definitely know which is which, right off the bat. That's not even a desire, that's a fact of our existence... because the alternative is too damn scary
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Totally, but the arc there isn't "be a paragon of your house," but "houses are bad, be yourself."
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Even before that, the only way to get into Hogwarts is to receive the letter. Otherwise, no matter how how hard you try you'll still end up a Petunia.
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I watched the second Divergent movie first (randomly picked) and I really enjoyed the whole 'best of all worlds' / polytribal identity vibe!pic.twitter.com/0fAWAK8mkg
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But then in the last book, he chooses to keep Voldemort's wand instead of Dumbledore's, which is kind of weird.
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