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| | The Sorting Hat (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | An ancient wizard's hat, patched and frayed, is placed upon a four-legged stool in the middle of the school's Great Hall. |
 | | This is the Sorting Hat, and each new student is called, one by one, to approach the stool and put on the hat. |
 | | The Sorting Hat is magically alive, you see, and its job is to listen to each student's thoughts for a few moments, trying to catch the note of his or her true nature, and then to call out, through a tear near the brim, which of the four residence houses the student will call home. |
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