Before you proceed to the next caches of this series, you must be
sorted to find out in which Hogwart'House you belong to. PLEASE
PICK one CONTAINER ONLY AND SIGN IT...not all of them.
SORTING
HAT
The Sorting Hat is a sentient Hogwarts
artifact which magically determines to which of the four school
Houses each new student is to be assigned. These four Houses
are Gryffindor,
Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw and
Slytherin.
The Sorting Hat originally belonged to
Godric
Gryffindor, one of the founders of
Hogwarts. It normally
stays in the Headmaster's
office until it is needed;
Harry Potter tried on
the Sorting Hat for the second time when he was sent to
Dumbledore's office for the first time in his second
year.
During the opening banquet at the beginning of
each school year, the first-year students are lined up and their
names read aloud alphabetically. Each then takes a seat on a stool
and the hat is placed on her or his head.The hat is battered and
old; it's patched, frayed, and extremely dirty. In order to speak
and sing, a tear along the brim opens like a mouth. It speaks
inside of the hat with a small, quiet voice to the wearer and it
can read thoughts and respond to them. After a moment of
consideration, the hat announces its choice aloud for all to hear,
and the student joins the selected house. The moment of
consideration varies in length, from nearly a minute to less than a
second. Judging from Harry
's own account of his Sorting, and a brief comment
made by Hermione
, the hat may sometimes speak to the student during
the Sorting.