The Sorting Hat, which is arguably the most precious spiritual continuation of Hogwarts.

It was made about a thousand years ago and was originally just a normal hat belonging to Godric Gryffindor.

Later, in order for the four founders to continue to divide Hogwarts students into different houses after their deaths, Gryffindor took out his hat and injected ideas into it along with the other three founders.

From then on, the Sorting Hat became angry and began to be responsible for selecting, evaluating, and sorting new students into different houses.

For a thousand years, the Sorting Hat has been passed down from generation to generation by the Headmasters, and most of the time it is kept in the Headmaster's office, except for use in sorting ceremonies, as one of Hogwarts' most important magical treasures.

Before the opening banquet of each school year, first-year students line up to prepare for the house.

The order of the schools is alphabetical according to the student's name. Once the freshman preparing for the Sorting House sits on a stool, the battered, tattered, dirty, patched Sorting Hat is placed on his or her head. There is a crack near the brim that opens like a mouth when the Sorting Hat speaks or sings loudly. The Sorting Hat also speaks in the wearer's ear in a subtle voice, and is able to interpret and respond to their thoughts through the Psychic Mind.

After a period of consideration, the hat will shout out his choice to everyone, and the new students will be assigned to the house.

Usually the Sorting Hat only thinks about it for a few seconds, but occasionally it takes longer, even five minutes (known as "hat embarrassment"). During the process of sorting, the Sorting Hat sometimes communicates with new students, but usually not for long.

People may occasionally question some of the Sorting Hat's Sorting Decisions, but never the Sorting Hat itself, because in a sense, the top wizarding hat represents the will of the four founders, and even the successive Headmasters—

In the eyes of most wizards, at least, the Sorting Hat, like Dumbledore, has the magical power to reassure people.

Until this first day......

This conscientious Sorting Hat is crazy.

Crazy –

......

The auditorium was a sea of pointed black hats, and every long house table was filled with students, their faces glittering with thousands of candles floating above the tables, most of them with excited expressions on their faces.

"It's worthy of the eldest sister!

Ron Weasley let out a voice of amazement, admiration written all over his face.

And beside him, the Weasley twins looked equally impressed—was this the strength of Elena Moonlight Kaslana? Comparable to a humanoid Peeves, they could easily do what they couldn't.

"Oh," Hagrid said, shaking his head, sullenly, "that's not a good thing. ”

New students at Hogwarts wear a Sorting Hat in order to be sorted into the houses, but Hagrid has the impression that the Sorting Hat has never been so strange in all the years since he entered the school.

"Why? Isn't it the most wonderful thing to be able to choose any academy you want?"

Harry looked up at the familiar big man beside him, and asked softly, somewhat confused.

You know, when he was sorting out last year, even if he took the initiative to fill in the "volunteer", the sorting hat still asked him if he was considering going to Slytherin House, and as far as he knew, Hermione, Neville and others had encountered similar problems.

According to Elena's eldest sister, this often means that a student has more than one outstanding trait at the same time.

"It's not the same, Harry. While it may seem similar, it is not the same in essence. ”

Hermione Granger frowned slightly, and looked at the white-haired ball not far away with some concern.

"If it was because he couldn't choose, then the Sorting Hat would have whispered to Elena what she thought, and even if he fell into a longer silence than everyone else, it would not have been possible to have such a strange situation - in other words, judging from the current situation, at least one of the two had a problem, and maybe even both. ”

"So what do you think will be the problem?"

Percy Weasley also turned his head and took the initiative to join the conversation.

"Granger, you and Elena should be the most familiar in all of Hogwarts......"

Along with Hermione Granger's explanation, he also sensed that something was wrong.

Especially when Professor McGonagall took the Sorting Hat off Elena's head, and the Sorting Hat continued to recite the name of the House to herself, most of the young wizards realized that something must be wrong.

It's like ......

Elena once described to them the situation where the computer was stuck in an endless loop.

Hermione Granger looked at the hat thoughtfully, her eyes growing more and more confused - but the question was how......

At this moment, Professor Dumbledore suddenly stood up and strode towards the sorting ceremony hall in front of the faculty table.

"Professor Dumbledore, Sorting Hat, Elena......"

Professor McGonagall pinched her "crazy" sorting hat, a rare look of bewilderment on her face.

As the Headmaster of Hogwarts, McGonagall had tried several ways, but the Sorting Hat still didn't respond, and given the special nature of the Sorting Hat to Hogwarts, she didn't dare to try some potentially dangerous spells.

To make matters worse, Elena Kaslana's form also looks a little off.

It was only after Professor McGonagall had removed the Sorting Hat from Elena that she noticed that the girl's beautiful lake-blue eyes seemed to have a thin layer of ice, as if they were sculptures without any emotion, with a chilling cold depth.

"Don't worry about the Sorting Hat just yet, it shouldn't be too much of a problem......"

Dumbledore waved his hand, the candle shining on his beard, and looked at Elena carefully.

This state, he seems to have seen somewhere before-

That's right, Lemay, Nicol Lemay!

The human brain has limits, especially wizards, and if they suddenly recall a large number of details in a short period of time, it is easy for pure rational thinking to occupy all their minds, thus presenting this kind of indifference like a mechanical puppet.

Even Dumbledore sometimes had such a situation - the more powerful the wizard, the harder it was to forget.

That's why Albus Dumbledore needed a dedicated meditation basin to store important and infrequently used fragmentary memories from time to time, lest he get caught up in the inundation of information when he was thinking about something.

As for why Elena is also in such a state......

Dumbledore glanced at Grindelwald sitting in the faculty seat, and the Sorting Hat that had temporarily fallen into a state of "madness", and a trace of solemnity flashed across his face - if nothing else, could it be because of the prophetic memory?

The principle of the Sorting Hat is actually an infinite amount of soft deception.

Based on what it reads from the students' minds, it analyzes and judges each piece of information according to the magic left by the Big Four, and then selects the most suitable for the students to go to the academy.

Because of this, the more complex and voluminous the emotions and experiences, the more difficult it is for the Sorting Hat, and if so, ......

Dumbledore suddenly remembered the breathtaking rehearsal of the world situation that the girl had made in the Slytherin common room shortly after meeting Elena last year, and the storm that had been set off in the non-magical and magical worlds of the former Soviet Union with Elena's subtle actions in the past year, and the prophecy about the end of Hogwarts that Elena had told that night......

Alas, I don't know what the poor Sorting Hat saw for such a situation.