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For questions about the Sorting Hat from the Harry Potter franchise. Use when asking about the Hat itself, its decisions, and possibly when asking why a certain character belongs to a certain house. Use with the [harry-potter] and [hogwarts] tags when appropriate.

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What is the point of the Sorting Hat?

Based on the song that the Sorting Hat itself sang one of the years, it seemed that in the beginning, each of the founding wizards had their own preference on who to accept (except Helga Hufflepuff, w …
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Sorting Harry Into A House

Harry and Dumbledore talk about it briefly at the end of Chamber of Secrets: "So I should be in Slytherin," Harry said, looking desperately into Dumbledore's face. "The Sorting Hat could see Slytheri …
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