~::~ !?!?!?!WHERE IS THE SORTING HAT!?!?!?! ~::~

[Mistress Gem]

*Professor Mistress Gem appears in the Great Hall in a rush of excitement*

Oh dear, Oh dear!! Students and Professors!!

A Dark Magic has come into our great Mansion! The Sorting Hat is missing!
We depend on our beloved Hat to direct us to our Houses and unite us as One body of Wizard Mansion Hogwarts students!
Where will we go now?? We must find that Hat, our cherished friend!

Has anyone seen anything you'd like to report? Does anyone have any ideas as to where we should begin looking?? I was not prepared for this abstruseness so early in our term! Oh dear! What shall we do???

*frets*  

[CeLeStiaL WiZDoM WeAsLeY]

{A Loud Murmuring And Gasps Echo Everywhere

Throughout The GREAT HALL From The Startled Students!

Fear Can Be Felt Filling The Great Hall!}



Soon Professor CeLeStiaL WiZDoM WeAsLeY is heard to exclaim "Let there be Silence!" "We have Wizarding students of all grades here and
this is a prime opportunity for them to practice quieting their minds
and their external senses and to hone in with their Wizarding senses
to solve this dire problem of discovering what has happened to
our beloved Sorting Hat!

The Sorting Hat would never have chosen to be missing! Dark Magic is involved here! It appears that Dark Wizards Magic wants us in fear, scattered and vulnerable in order to Invade and Destroy us! Let us not be easy prey!!!"


"It appears that some Dark Wizard wants to create a Distraction and
to have us all scattered and confused and in fear and Vulnerable!"



"I am also worried over the fate they plan for our loyal old friend
The Sorting Hat! The sorting of new students into their Hogwarts
Houses depends entirely on our dear Hat! The Sorting Hat has
also been of great help and assistance in many other important
Hogwarts affairs! The time of the Great Sorting of the newest
batch of incoming young Wizards is upon us! Be Alert! The Sorting
Hat may have been kidnapped in order to distract us and put us
in fear.

Stay Calm and Keenfully Aware in your intuitive Wizarding senses and we will triumph and save The Sorting Hat from perhaps a
gruesome fate!

Quiet yourselves and concentrate and hone in on your Wizarding senses... live your psychic intuition ... you may also be led to create potions and spells which assist in locating missing things and beings!" 3nodding



*Students! Be Confidant And Proceed!* Professor CeLeStiaL WiZDoM
WeAsLeY Exclaims With Encouraging Gusto! mrgreen


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[Mistress Gem]

Professor Mistress Gem looked over the room in the heat of the commotion as her throat tightened with fear. Instictively she gripped her wand feeling it's protective energies, knowing it would do little good in this moment of realization. Her imagination went wild considering the actual impact of the situation.

Suddenly a voice pulled her back to her senses.

Elizabth Swann

Perhaps it was that of the dark side in which Voldermort is known to be included. Or maybe it is among thousands of other hats in Diagon Alley, where it has been picked up by random people. Oh, I don't know, I'm only a first-year...

Elizabth you may be on to something there! I can't think of a better place to hide a hat than amid thousands of other hats! But what if an innocent did end up with it?? Would The Sorting Hat allow itself to be bought?

Ohh! If only we had a chance to have a first Sorting Ceremony this year, his song may have warned us of the impending danger!  

[Prof SeVeRuS SnApE ALiVe]

~::~ Attention All Hogwarts Wizarding
Students And Professors! The Sorting Hat Has Been *Found!* ~::~

The Culprits In Stealing The Sorting Hat Were Draco Malfoy And His
Stooges... Crabbe And Goyle. They Did This On The Orders Of The
Dark Lord Voldemort... Before He Was Vanquished In The Terrible
Last Hogwarts Battle Fought Against Him And His Death Eaters. stare

When Harry Potter, Ron And Hermione Were Rescuing The Last Of
Voldemort's Horcruxes ... 'The Diadem Of Ravenclaw' ... From The
Magical Fire Created By Crabbe In 'The Room Of Requirement'
~~~ Fawkes The Phoenix Swooped Into 'The Room Of Requirement'
And Snatched Up And Rescued Our Dear Sorting Hat. Until That Moment None Of Us Knew Where The Sorting Hat Had Been Taken. stare

Fawkes The Phoenix And The Sorting Hat Have Telepathic Communication Between Themselves... As They Do With Headmaster Albus Dumbledore. 3nodding

The Dark Lord Voldemort Ordered Draco, Crabbe And Goyle To Team Up And Conspire To Steal The Sorting Hat, And Hide It In 'The Room Of Requirement'. Stupidly... Voldemort Believed That Only He Knew Of 'The Room.' How Could Voldemort Be So Stupid.. When 'The Room Of Requirement' Is Filled With Objects That Countless Others Have Hidden There? stare

The Reason The Dark Lord Voldemort Wanted The Sorting Hat Stolen And Hidden Away... Is Because Voldemort Wanted ALL Sortings To Cease... STOPPED. Voldemort Planned For ALL Of Hogwarts To Be Entirely An Evil And Corrupted Slytherin House Headed By Himself. So... No More Sortings Was Voldemort's Aim. stare

Thankfully They Had Not Yet Destroyed Our Beloved Sorting Hat! smile

Our Dear Sorting Hat Is Now Happily Back Home In Headmaster
Albus Dumbledore's Office. smile


~::~ The Sorting Hat Is Back ~ Singing And Sorting! ~::~ smile



~::~ Professor SeVeRuS SnApE ALiVe ~::~ stare