Notes on Sorting the Students

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[ideas for sorting methods]

(Ghost) Court N
Hat M
Arbitrary List M
Gateway M
Statues N
Selection Committee (Prefects / Hs of H etc) MN
Question or Riddle M

Forget Song, Just put on Hat.

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[start of term feast]

Dumbledore — Forest, Quidditch Trials, Corridor

Does Scar have to happen at feast

Snape

Dumbledore & Snape

Peeves

[first draft of sorting hat song]

Oh I might not look might not be that look too pretty
But don't judge on what you see
I'll eat myself if you can find
A smarter hat than me

Golri 2

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[(verso) waking up the following morning and meeting Nearly Headless Nick]

"Time to wake up, gentlemen, breakfast will be served in half an hour."

Harry woke. He looked up at the red velvet curtains drawn around his four-poster. His first happy thought was "I'm at Hogwarts.” His second, after he had thrown back the curtains and found his slippers was "I'm hungry." His third was something he had never needed to think before. It was "That man's transparent." After he had thought this, his mind went completely blank. He sat frozen, staring at the man in the middle of his dormitory who had just woken them all up. There was no doubt about it. There was a ghost at the foot of his bed.

"Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington at your service," said the ghost, sweeping off his broad brimmed hat and bowing to them all - for Ron, Seamus, Lee, and Neville were also staring open mouthed at him, "Resident Ghost of Gryffindor Tower."