![]() In 1858, Angus Buchanan, an eleven-year old Scottish Squib managed to sneak into the feast with the help of his wizard brother and put the Sorting Hat on his head. The hat continued to carry out its duty each September at the beginning of the start-of-term feast, when it was placed on a three-legged (sometimes four-legged) stool at the front of the Great Hall. When not in use, it is placed on a shelf in the current Headmaster's or Headmistress's office. The Sorting Hat, now animated, was able to sort and divide the students into the Hogwarts Houses, and continued to do so for a millennium, passed down to each new Headmaster or Headmistress of the school. The Sorting Hat on a shelf in the Headmaster's office All four founders wanted to ensure that students would be sorted into their eponymous Houses, which would be selected according to each founder's particular preferences in students. When Gryffindor, along with Salazar Slytherin, Rowena Ravenclaw and Helga Hufflepuff, wondered how they would continue to sort the students when the four were dead, Gryffindor pulled his hat from his head and, along with the other founders, enchanted it with their combined intelligence. Legend had it that the Sorting Hat was sewn roughly one thousand years ago and began as a normal hat belonging to Godric Gryffindor. The Sorting Hat, Sorting students into their respective Houses at the ceremony It's got to be a pretty boring life, hasn't it, being a hat? I suppose it spends all year making up the next one." - Ron Weasley's opinion of the Sorting Hat's existence ![]() This, it claimed, was the reason why it was never wrong when picking a House, as it wasn't the Hat picking the House at all but instead the students themselves. Īlthough most people believed that the Sorting Hat used its Legilimency to see which House would be the most suitable for the student, the Hat actually used its Legilimency to see which House the student would be happiest in, which it judged by the student's mental reaction to mention of the House. On balance, however, the Hat had made remarkably few errors of judgement over the many centuries it had been at work. ![]() On those occasions when Slytherins behaved altruistically or selflessly, when Ravenclaws flunked all their exams, when Hufflepuffs proved lazy yet academically gifted, and when Gryffindors exhibited cowardice, the Hat steadfastly backed its original decision. The Sorting Hat was notorious for refusing to admit it had ever made a mistake in its sorting of a student. The moment of consideration varied in time period from less than a second to over five minutes (known as " hatstall"). After a time of consideration, the hat announced its choice aloud for all to hear, and the student joined the selected house. It spoke to the wearer inside of the hat with a small, quiet voice, using Legilimency to interpret their thoughts and respond to them. In order to speak and sing, a tear along the brim opened like a mouth. The hat was battered and old by 1991 it was patched, frayed, and extremely dirty. Each then took a seat on a stool and placed the hat on their heads. During the opening banquet at the beginning of each school year, the first-year students were lined up and their names read aloud alphabetically by last name. “It literally contains the intelligence of the four founders, can speak (through a rip near its brim) and is skilled at Legilimency, which enables it to look into the wearer’s head and divine his or her capabilities or mood.The famous Hogwarts Sorting Hat gave an account of its own genesis in a series of songs. “The Sorting Hat is one of the cleverest enchanted objects most witches and wizards will ever meet,” Rowling’s Pottermore description reads. When users enter into the sorting hat ceremony, they are required to answer a series of questions that will determine which Hogwarts house best suits them. Luckily, the official sorting quiz is now back. However, the site was relaunched without the popular feature in September, leaving many to wonder about their fate in the wizarding world. Rowling’s interactive website Pottermore.įirst launched in 2011, the online home of HP was designed so Muggles could enjoy the magic of Hogwarts. Harry Potter fans rejoice! You can once again be sorted into a Hogwarts house on J.K. Which #Hogwarts house are you in? Be sorted and have a wand choose you, now on #Pottermore: /5bMAjywjLL- Wizarding World January 28, 2016
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |