How we cite our quotes: All quotations are from Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.
Quote #4
SORTING HAT: Bee in your bonnet, Potter?
HARRY POTTER: I was just wondering if you put me in the right house.
SORTING HAT: Yes. You were particularly difficult to place. But I stand by what I said last year. You would have done well in Slytherin.
HARRY POTTER: You're wrong.
The Sorting Hat seems pretty sure that Harry would have been a rock star in Slytherin (their Quidditch team certainly could have used him), but Harry isn't so sure. He may be questioning his place in the wizarding world, but he knows he wouldn't willingly choose to act like a Slytherin.
Quote #5
HARRY POTTER: It was Hagrid. Hagrid opened the Chamber of Secrets fifty years ago.
HERMIONE GRANGER: It can't be Hagrid. It just can't be.
RON WEASLEY: We don't even know this Tom Riddle. He sounds like a dirty, rotten snitch.
HARRY POTTER: The monster had killed somebody, Ron. What would any of us have done?
In retrospect, Hermione and Ron are right on the money about Hagrid and Tom Riddle, but Harry doesn't see it that way. What choice did Tom have? Hagrid's monster had killed someone. But Harry doesn't realize that he's just seeing Tom's choices through the skewed perspective that he's been presented.
Quote #6
CORNELIUS FUDGE: Bad business, Hagrid, very bad business. Had to come. Three attacks on Muggle-borns. Things have gone far enough. The Ministry's got to act.
RUBEUS HAGRID: But I never. You know I never, professor.
ALBUS DUMBLEDORE: I want it understood, Cornelius, that Hagrid has my full confidence.
CORNELIUS FUDGE: Albus, look, Hagrid's record is against him. I've got to take him.
RUBEUS HAGRID: Take me? Take me where? Not Azkaban prison.
CORNELIUS FUDGE: I'm afraid we have no choice, Hagrid.
The Minister of Magic claims he has no choice but to take Hagrid to Azkaban, but that's not quite true. Fudge decides to but his own political future above that of an innocent man. If he looks like he's taking action, then he must be. That's a choice real life politicians make all too often.