"Harry Potter"

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This paper explains the significance of Harry's initial sorting into Gryffindor House (especially as opposed to Slytherin House) by the Sorting Hat and other related incidents of Harry's fate within the novel, "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone". The paper also highlights the importance of fate in the novel, especially for Harry himself. Furthermore, the paper expands on the implicit conflict between fate and human will in the book.

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"The incident of the Sorting Hat, in which the new Hogwarts students, at the beginning of their first year are sorted into houses (e.g., similar to dormitories in American schools, in which they will live for the remainder of their studies at Hogwarts (e.g., Gryffindor; Slytherin; Hufflepuff; or Ravenclaw). Within Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (1997), the Sorting Hat incident, in which Harry is chosen by the Sorting Hat itself, putting it on his head as all students do, and having it "sort" him, for Gryffindor House, is important, in that it determines much of his fate and his future fate at Hogwarts and elsewhere. "

Sample of Sources Used:

• De Rosa, Deborah. ""Challenges to and Affirmations of the Initiation Paradigm in Harry Potter". In Harry Potter's World : Multidisciplinary/Critical Perspectives
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• Rowling, J.K. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. New York: Scholastic Press, 1997.

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