Sorting Hat
Magical placement decider
The Sorting Hat is a sentient magical hat in the Harry Potter series that assigns new students to one of four houses at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
It reads minds to assess personality traits and potential.
Beyond the fictional world, sorting hat has become shorthand for any mechanism that categorizes people into groups: The algorithm is basically a sorting hat for job applicants.
- Harry PotterFictional adolescent sorcerer
- GryffindorScarlet and gold house
- SlytherinCunning wizards' faction
- RavenclawIntellectual magic academy group
- HufflepuffWizard school's kindest house
Hogwarts · ceremony · feast · stool · singing · school song · patched · brim · ancient · whisper · mind-reading · choice · courage · cunning · wisdom · loyalty · houses · enchanted
- Harry PotterHarry Potter, Hermione Granger, Hogwarts, Voldemort, Ron Weasley
- Sci-Fi/Fantasy Lawsprecrime, Judge Dredd, thoughtcrime, Ministry of Magic
Sorting Hatdrawing lots
Random selection method
coin flip · birth order · alphabetical sorting · first-come-first-served · nepotism
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