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dents, with the teachers behihe
hundreds of fag at them looked like pale lahe
flig dlelight. dotted here ahe students,
the ghosts shoy silver. mainly to avoid all the staring eyes,
harry looked upward and saw a velvety blag dotted with
stars. he heard
hermios bewitched to look like the sky outside. i
read about it in hogwarts, a history.”
it was hard to believe there was a g there at all, and
that the great hall didnt simply open on to the heavens.
harry quickly looked dorall silently
placed a fed stool in fro years. on top of the
stool she put a pointed wizards hat. this hat atd frayed
ay. auunia wouldnt have let it in the house.
maybe they had tet a rabbit out ht
wildly, that seemed the sort of thing -- notig that everyone in
the hall was n at the hat, he stared at it, too. for a few
seds, there lete sile t
he brim opened wide like a mouth -- a began to sing:
”oh, you may not think im pretty,
but dont judge on what you see,
ill eat myself if you d
a smarter hat than me.
you keep your bowlers black,
your top hats sleek and tall,
for im the hogwarts s hat
and i cap them all.
theres nothing hidden in your head
the s hat t see,
so try me on and i will tell you
where you ought to be.
you might belong in gryffindor,
where dwell the brave at heart,
their daring, nerve, and chivalry set gryffindors apart;
you might belong in hufflepuff,
where they are just and loyal,
those patient hufflepuffis are true and unafraid of toil;
or yet in wise old ravenclaw,
if youve a ready mind,
where those of wit and learning,
will always find their kind;
or perhaps in slytherin
youll make your real friends,
those g folk use any means
to achieve their ends.
so put me on! dont be afraid!
and do in a flap!
youre ihough i have none)
for im a thinking cap!”
the whole hall burst into applause as the hat fis
song. it bowed to each of the four tables ae
still again.
”so weve just got to try o!” roo
harry. ”ill kill fred, he was going on ab a troll.”
harry. smiled weakly. yes, tryi was a lot better
than having to do a spell, but he did wish they could have tried it
on without everyog. the hat seemed to be asking rather
alot; harry didnt feel brave or quick-witted or any of it at the
moment. if o had mentioned a house for people who felt
a bit queasy, that would have been the one for him.
prall now stepped f a long roll
of part.
”when i e, you will put o and sit on the
stool to be sorted,” she said. ”abbott, hannah!”
a pink-faced girl with bloails stumbled out of line,
put o, which fell right down over her eyes, and sat down. a
moments pause --
”hufflepuff!” shouted the hat.
the table ht d clapped as hao
sit down at the hufflepuff table. harry saw the ghost of the fat
friar wavi her.
”bones, susan!”
”hufflepuff!” shouted the hat again, and susao
sit o hannah.
”boot, terry!”
”ravenclaw!”
the table se the left clapped this time; several
ravenclaws stood up to shake hands with terry as he joihem.
” brocklehurst, mao ravenclaw too, but ”brown,
lavehe first new gryffindor, aable on the
far left exploded with cheers; harry could see rons twin brothers
g.
”bulstrode, milli became a slytheri
was harrys imagination, after all hed heard about slytheri