History Of The Sorting Hat

Everything had began magnificently the day I attended the renaissance fair. It was the first time I’d ever been to any festival of the sort, and the air was full of magic. At exactly 10:30 in the morning, the ceremony began. The King and Queen presented themselves atop the castle’s balcony to address their people. As the beautiful royals welcomed us into their kingdom, my heart beat erratically, and I crossed the threshold with my breath held. There were so many events that I wanted to see, and activities I wanted to try; I couldn’t wait to get inside. I wasn’t just an ordinary guest, however, I had a job to do. Carrying my instrument lightly with one hand, dressed as a princess and feeling important, I walked proudly through the bustling

The rooms are arranged from east to west with the blue room on the east and the black one on the west. East represents birth because of sunrise and west represents death because of sunset. Also, each of the 7 rooms represents a stage of one’s life, with the black on the very end representing

For a long time August always wore anything that could cover his face mostly baseball caps even at water parks he would wear them because ever since he lost his Astronaut helmet he has nothing to wear to make people stop staring and when he is in school he had to keep his down because students can’t wear hats in school August’s baseball cap is important to the book because it stops people from staring at him which helped a lot in school but then he got his hearing aids which means he can’t wear baseball caps for a long time.

Walking into the embellished reception hall filled with people, I couldn’t predict what would happen, especially with not knowing much people that were going to be at the party. As Laura went off to greet all her friends in the room, I stayed alone at the

When he throws a huge masquerade party the ball takes place in a suite of the seven rooms were each one is dressed up in a different color blue, purple, orange, white, violet and black.”The apartments were so irregularly disposed that the vision embraced but little more than one at a time”. The colors of the rooms symbolizes the seven stages of life from Shakespeare by showing how the first room represents the stage of a infancy working it’s way down towards the last stage of your life where the black room represents death. The seven stages of life and the seven rooms show how life is being divided into stages and each stage in our life are different from one

Once entering Hogwarts, the student will be sorted in one of the four houses called as follow: Gryffindor, Slytherin, Hufflepuff, and Ravenclaw. To decide what house the student belongs to, the professor uses the sorting hat to determine what house they belong to. The sorting hat is what the muggles don’t have and stated by the website Pottermore, “It literally contains the intelligence of the four founders, can speak (through a rip near its brim) and is skilled at Legimency, which enables it to look into the wearer’s head and divine his or her capabilities or mood.” (J.K. Rowling) what it means is the hat uses its power to uncover the person’s thoughts and see his/her talents and that is how Harry Potter got sorted into Gryffindor. In Hogwarts, the sport that is well known and is a wizard favorite is called “Quidditch” and it is played in the muggle world as well, but in the wizard world it is played with broomsticks. This sport is played rough since there are no rules in the wizard world and both teams want to win points for their houses. The game can be called automatically over if the seeker catches the golden snitch (a golden ball with wings) and it will be worth one hundred fifty points for their house which is important to them and as the school

On the Twenty-Eighth Day, the Outer Bailey was graced with an event that surrounded Courtesy and Decorum with Mistress Josie as its hostess. In her own words, the event was designed to give Denizens the opportunity to learn what a formal ball might consist of in the Inner Bailey. To prepare for this event, the mistress teamed up with the Royal Curator, Master Jeffery to teach Denizens in the Outer Bailey about courtly dancing.

The todlers are bouncing woth joy when the guest of honor walks into the living room. The marvelous princess sprinkles pixie dust over the children before she rolls in dessert. The chocolate cupcakes fill the room with an aroma strong enough to make the kids druel. They grab eagerly at the cupcakes and procede to shove the cupcakes into their mouths. Without a care in the world, they wipe off their messy faces with the rough material of their extravagant costumes. Laughter fills the room when one of the children belches long enough to say the

My guests grew tired of all of the extravagant halls and small entertainment I had set up for them. Wishing to keep my guests pleased, I threw a masque of great magnificence. I gave my guests tasteful, yet grotesque costumes designed by my own glorious hand and an utterly bizarre ball environment. Within my abbey, I created seven rooms of many hues lit by only a fire’s gleam outside of a corresponding shade stained glass window. The last room, the seventh, I believe, was the most peculiar. I had devised an atmosphere encompassing every shade of black; however, the windows reminded all that entered of the terror raging outside: the crimson, terrific hue of blood as the lightness of the fire could not seep through the darkness of the color of

It began at the second late bell where many gathered outside the throne room, eager to get inside to find their section. After being thoroughly checked by the Winter Watch, Denizens were allowed inside. Speculations about promotions were murmured as everyone waited in expectation of Her Majesty, Queen Vivienne, His Excellency, Lord Boreas and His Highness, Prince Bertram. Eventually, the Royal Heralds filed inward behind the Royal Speaker, Mistress

The story takes place in a abbey will seven different halls that the prince and his closest friends lock themselves in. The rooms all have diverse colors the first Blue, then purple, green, orange, white, violet, and finally black. Blue is the symbol of birth, the color of a blanket a baby boy is swaddled in. Purple is a child's way for describing violet, so it represents childhood. Green is adolescence, orange is adulthood, summer is when the brightly colored fruit on trees ripen and mature, adulthood is when you are fully matured. White is old age when your hair turns white, violet is the the last bit of your life before you die it’s the sickness and sadness of your final days. Finally black is death, “...the effect of the fire-light that streamed upon the dark hangings through the blood-tinted panes was ghastly in the extreme…” black is darkness, what people wear to funerals, what monsters and ghosts hide in, it is the final stage in your

Dumbledore mentions Harry’s presence in Gryffindor House, and Tom Riddle’s in Slytherin House. Harry, in a defeated tone, says, “It only puts me in Gryffindor” because Harry did not want to go in Slytherin. Beaming again, Dumbledore says, “exactly … Which makes you very different from Tom Riddle. It is our choices, Harry … far more than

Because it is during this ceremony that you become a member of a house, a house that will become your family during the school year.

They develop friendships with members of their own house and rivalries with members of opposing houses. Upon being assigned to a house, each student strives to follow the standard and expectations of their particular group, whether it is the "brave" Gryffindors, the "loyal" Hufflepuffs, the "wise" Ravenclaws, or the "cunning" Slytherines. Their house becomes almost like a cult in which they live by: "Your house will be something like your family within Hogwarts. You will have classes with the rest of your house, sleep in your house dormitory and spend free time in your house common-room" (85). Each of the students share the common goal of winning the House Cup for their house. Individualism, therefore, is constrained and each student is forced to act in a particular way in which they are expected to. Aside from the Sorting Hat, other forces of fate also take part in determining the students' house associations. For example, Harry is sorted into Gryffindor, the same house his parents belonged to. Similarly every member in the Weasley family had been a Gryffindor, while every member in the Malfoy family had been a Slytherine. This reinforces the idea that the events in each character's life are predestined. They did not have a choice over their placement in the houses, but rather, they are assigned to a particular house based on forces beyond their control.

In the Harry Potter series by J.K Rowling Harry starts of in the unfamiliar wizarding world of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. After lord Voldemort killed Harry’s parents he is sent of to his aunt and uncle's house as a baby. Harry does not like living with them but eventually at age 12 he gets a letter to attend hogwarts which he will soon find out that he is a wizard. After being sorted into one of the four houses (Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, ravenclaw and slytherin)he gets sorted into gryffindor and finds friends in his house(Ron and Hermione). They have to stick together and work together to defeat him. This leads to one of the themes for this book series being that “You are much stronger when with friends”.