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Heir of Slytherin Finally Placed! Sorting Hat Cursed & Confused
In an unprecedented turn of events, The Daily Prophet was finally able to catch up with Hogwarts School of Witch Craft and Wizardries Headmaster Minerva McGonagall, regarding the sorting ceremony and placement of Colleen Seidel (covered here in our previous story), the last known heir to Salazar Slytherin.
The Daily Prophet had previously received word by Owl that during the ceremony the Sorting Hat was unable to place first-year student Colleen over the course of at least ten attempts.
When initially placed on her head the Sorting Hat broke out into an ear-shrieking scream that resembled something similar to a howler. Interestingly enough, the Sorting Hat was placed on several students between the attempts of Colleen and sorted them with extreme ease.
When we were finally granted an interview with headmaster McGonagall we inquired what had happened during the sorting ceremony.
Headmaster McGonagall informed The Prophet that:
For days, Hogwart’s Professors nor I understood what the cause of this sorting debacle was or how to fix it.
After much deliberation the Ministry of Magic’s Department of Magical Artefacts was sought out in hopes to understand why the sorting hat was unable to place a Colleen.
Just yesterday we recieved owl that the Sorting Hat was cursed with dark magic to prevent the sorting of Colleen and the artefact will remain in the custody of the appropriate department until further notice.
When we asked the Headmaster how Colleen is to be placed, the following was conveyed:
We’ve allowed Ms. Seidel to pick her own house until the investigation has concluded. We are in hopes that she will be welcomed naturally by the students around her and if so, it may be prudent to keep her in the house of her choosing.
For now…
The Headmaster sighed and looked down
She has choosen Gryffindor
When The Prophet inquired about how she personally felt regarding the decision, Headmaster McGonagall declined to answer.
For those of us old enough to remember, Minerva McGonagall was the Head of House for Gryffindor from 1956 – 1998 and may have strong feelings about the direction Colleen has taken.
For now, we’ve again been left with more questions than answers.
Why was the sorting hat cursed? Why did Colleen choose Gryffindor as her house of choices? Will the other students be accepting of this decision in light of the surrounding circumstances?
Make sure to check your owls daily as this story continues to unfold.
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unprecedented decision! wouldn’t she be Slythiren?
🙁
Well I guess she wanted to choose her future?!
It is her choice, though I’m surprised she didn’t want to go in the house of Slytherin. After all, Salazar Slytherin IS her heir.
Well I guess she wanted to choose her future?!
The family has nothing to do with the sorting. It’s who the person is. My whole family is made of Gryffindors yet I’m a Slytherin. Bloodline has nothing to do with it.
I agree. Bloodline has nothing to do with where the sorting hat puts you.
Your absolutely right the family has nothing to do, it is the person who we are.
Well Look at Albus Potter, he’s in slither in when his father was in Gryffindor, times are changing for the Wizarding world
It was a very interesting Sorting ceremony, that’s for sure. Peculiar way to start my 7th Year.
Gabriel,
Do you have any other information regarding the ceremony? Possibly how Hogwarts is adapting to Colleen being at the school and in Gryffindor? We would love to procure any information available surrounding the ongoing situation.
All the best,
The Daily Prophet
I actually am a pureblood, I’m the sister of Scorpius Malfoy, I haven’t began Hogwarts yet though enjoy reading the prophet. My father expects me to be a ravenclaw dues to my intelligence and wit. He doesn’t care, overall he’s proud!
I would choose Ravenclaw personally.
Are you Lord Voldemort’s daughter!
She might be
She is-
Chloe Lovgood {luna lovegood’s child} – 3rd year Ravenclaw – Heir of Ravenclaw
We know that Chloe. (May Malfoy, daughter of Draco Malfoy and sister to Scorpius Malfoy, not in Hogwarts yet. Expected house: Ravenclaw)
Hi Delphi, my father was wondering why his dark mark was feeling so much pain. Do you have any idea why?
The Sorting Hat had a similar problem with me. Unfortunately it wasn’t the same case. It just kept shouting: “UNDECIDED, UNYIELDING, UNPREDICTABLE!” Over and over again, they gave up after 30 minutes. After that night, I was living in my own lodgings at Hogwarts.
That’s impossible to imagine for me, the Hat barely touched me before I was sorted into Slytherin ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Lucky!
It took me like over 5 minutes before the sorting hat finally chose Slytherin!
In the past it seems like the Sorting Hat was building armies more than sorting houses, so I wonder if the “curse” was nothing more than a fail safe to keep the Hat from doing this once again? It does make you wonder about what the Hat might know, and who would want to stop it, if in fact that is what it’s doing.
I don’t understand why everyone is so surprised that she chose griffin for maybe she didn’t like what her ansestor
(Salazar Slytherin) how he wanted it so that only pure bloods can attend so maybe she chose griffindor
It was rather interesting. It scared the heck out of my first year muggle-born friend who was up next.
One of my friends is a muggle-born, (third year) and she looked scared too.
Wow, the hat put me in Hufflepuff immediately!
Same
My friend at the Department of Muggle Artefacts said that he was rather confused by the situation… apparently at the current moment they just cannot figure out what is going on. As for the poor student, I do hope she isn’t mentally scarred from the experience, even if she is the heir of Slytherin. I am rather surprised that she chose Gryffindor, but I suppose deviation from family patterns can happen, most of my family were/are in Hufflepuff, but I was in Ravenclaw.
I’m starting my second year, and I’m a little scared, my friend is a mudblood you see, I’m a pureblood, but I’m afraid to lose her..
To all those who are present and future Hogwarts students alike, Using the word “Mudblood” is seriously offensive, degrading, and utter ridicule to those who are born in non-magical families. The word is Taboo. Here in the US. we don’t ever use words that’re Taboo, that is asking for a death wish.
“It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be.”
I wonder if the hat saw something dreadful in Colleen’s mind and couldn’t take it. What if she was hiding something bad?
To build on that idea, I think that it is something that was far away in the past. Similar to Harry Potter, Coleen can see things that Salazar Slytherin experienced. Perhaps, now, the hat has all the pieces to a puzzle. An evil dark puzzle that it has been trying to finish for centuries. It’s quite possible that Salazar Slytherin had done something awful that the hat had seen, and now it is finally realizing what, or who, or when, or where. I know that it is hard to believe something so ludicrous. Yet, the possibility of Coleen having visions like Harry Potter, and the sorting hat having such a traumatic dark realization is not impossible. I ask the Daily Prophet to deeper investigate this subject. To dig to the very bottom of everything and anything until they know the truth. Otherwise, we could end up with another death or two at Hogwarts. Which could be one of these very commenters. Obviously, it is just a theory, but it could be a fact.
Hoping you are well,
BetterBeRaven
Why did she pick Griffyndorr out of all the other houses, do you think that we could have another repeat of the chamber of secrets??? If so shouldn’t the school shut-down??
You see im a third year huffelpuff, and im also a mud-blood, so In my opinion until we know that colleen is safe I think the school should shut down.
I think she should be put in slytherin (like her family) as she might ruin the reputation of gryffondor
As a worker at the Ministry of Magic’s Magical Co-operation office,
I hereby think that it is wrong that the Sorting hat is cursed.It had been at Hogwarts for over 400 years!Godric Gryffindor himself made it!And now it is cursed?!How Rubbish!
Agreed! The strength of magic for such an event would be astronomical.
Be who you want to be!
Everyone is different, look at me, all my older siblings got Slytherin but I got Hufflepuff.
Being different shouldn’t be looked down upon. It should be admired, just look at Luna Lovegood.
Yh people made fun of my mum but she turned out to be a world famous naturalist who is the heir of ravenclaw
Chloe Lovgood {luna lovegood’s child} – 3rd year Ravenclaw – Heir of Ravenclaw
She is very much like my Uncle, Harry Potter. Uncle Harry is a parseltongue, yet put in Gryffindor, same goes for Colleen, they both chose Gryffindor. See the resemblance? She’s a nice fellow, really. We’re friends, best-friends, and we’re apparently both gifted in numerous subjects.
I’m apparently a parseltongue too, yet put in Gryffindor, forgot to mention! Whew, loads of parseltongues in modern day Hogwarts!
Thank you for this information, as it pertains to the situation at Hogwarts. The Prophet has not been granted any further interviews with the families or Hogwarts since the time of this report. We appreciate any and all information provided as the circumstances unfold!
Oh, I do remember that! It was in the beginning of my fifth year in Hogwarts… have to say, it was quite the odd ceremony!
It is our choices that shows who we are, far more than our abilities.
-Albus Dumbledore
Exactly!
Are you Lord Voldemort’s daughter!
I was here when this happened. It was quite odd. Colleen deserves to be comforted, and I hope that the rest of the students at Hogwarts won’t give her such a hard time. I know what it feels like, as I was a muggle-born sorted to Slytherin, and everyone sort of avoided me my first year. I hung out with the people nobody wanted to be around before I became the Slytherin Seeker.
It is my first year at Hogwarts this year and I am in Ravenclaw but my best friend is a Gryffindor, we both are the first of our families to go to Hogwarts but we are both muggleborn. We were both quite shaken after she was not sorted in the ceremony scared if it might happen again. I asked professor mcgonagall immediately after the ceremony to see if that was normal and also to see what house Colleen was going to be put in and she told me that this was not normal and that Colleen would be placed in Gryffindor. I am rather worried for my friend in Gryffindor because if she really is a descendant of Salazar slytherin then I want extra precautions to be taken to ensure our safety at the school and I think if the chamber of secrets is to be opened we should use vertiserim to make sure it was her then expel her because I am doubting the safety of Hogwarts these days and I think the staff should be doing anything they can to keep the students safe.
Yes. But Slytherin’s monster was killed and Colleen doesn’t seem to want any part in that does she.
im seriously confused about this. I thought that the old sorting hat was enchanted to quickly easily make desicions. i can only dreadfully wonder if it was caught by the wrong hands,considering it is extremly skilled in legillemency.
you forgot Wulfric – its Albus Percival Wulfric Brian Dumbledore
Chloe Lovgood {luna lovegood’s child} – 3rd year Ravenclaw – Heir of Ravenclaw
Yeah, I’m a sixth-year, and things are all kinds of crazy at Hogwarts (then again, when are they not?)
I am a first year and man what a year it is to just start
Yeah, you are right
I am right now working for the ministry and I also heard about it
I think the poor girl should be comforted rather than being discriminated… after all who are we to say she is evil?
Maybe She Didn’t want to cause further drama as she may not be like her ancestors ?
She may not be bad
Think about it Horace Slughorn he Was in Slytherin but he wasn’t really that bad So she might be trying to show that she is not bad??
What? She chose Gryffindor? Slytherin is better.
good for her
Hey, my dad (Draco Malfoy) is proud that I’m a slyfindor! THe sorting hat could’ve place me in any house, but he asked me, ASKED ME, what house I wanted to be in! I wanted to be two houses so now i’m a Slyfindor and proud of it!!! It doesn’t matter what house she’s in!
Are they already going back to school in England full time? I live in the United States, and Ilvermorny is still virtual.
Yes, we’re in person here, though it seems like the rest of England isn’t doing so well right now. Hogwarts itself is doing alright, we quarantined in the building at the start of the year.
The basilisk is dead. How can it attack students? Why are people so worried about the new heir of Slytherin if Slytherin’s monster has been defeated? Or perhaps they’re worried about the person who cursed the hat. Unless they were trying to save Hogwarts. They could have thought that somehow she would like “awaken” the now dead basilisk. So obvisouly this was either a plot to scare people out of there wits (because that worked), someone is really up to no good and we should keep our eyes out, or they were actually trying to save Hogwarts byt hoping that if she wasn’t sorted that means she would never be allowed into Hogwarts. That person must not be very clever if that is the case. But also the sorting hat is a powerful object such as the goblet of fire. It would be almost impossible to have cursed it. So we obviously have a very powerful witch or wizard on our hands.
It’s a good thing students have warmed up to her now. No one really wanted to talk to her at first, I kind of felt bad. I’m a Hufflepuff, and I tried to make her feel at home here at the start of the year. My friends and I welcomed her into our group with open arms and now it seems like things are getting better for her! I’m not sure if they’ve gotten the sorting hat in check but she seems to like it in Gryffindor!
Colleen is a really sweet girl, truly! I feel bad for her, though. Everyone’s afraid of her! 🙁 I wish people wouldn’t think of her as evil.