Talk:Hogwarts AU/@comment-62.61.181.13-20130717163617/@comment-4911992-20130807210318

Being ambitious and cunning is what got her into trouble in the first place-- she turned her own mother into a bear, for crying out loud! I can see what you're saying, but I think that the Sorting Hat (because it's psychic for some reason-- take it up with J.K. Rowling) would put her in Gryffindor, knowing that she would ultimately need to use her Gryffindorness (if that's a word) to "change her fate," and encouraging her Slytherin side would get lots of people hurt, not just Merida. (My argument for the sorting hat being psychic? Neville Longbottom-- 'nuff said.)