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About Ravenclaw House at Hogwarts
In the Harry Potter series, the Hogwarts school of witchcraft and wizardry is divided into four houses, each bearing the last name of its founder - Godric Gryffindor, Salazar Slytherin, Rowena Ravenclaw and Helga Hufflepuff.
The Sorting
In the school's early days, students were handpicked by the founders. When they began to worry how students could be picked after their death, Godric Gryffindor took his hat off and the four "put some brains" in it. Now, at the beginning of each school year, the magical Sorting Hat is placed on each new student's head, at a ceremony named the Sorting ceremony, and the Sorting Hat announces the house that the student is bound to join. Before beginning the sorting, it sings a short ballad about the founding of the school and the four houses; the song is different every year and the Hat is said to take all the year writing the next one.
The hat sorts by judging the most obvious qualities of the student and choosing the most appropriate, although the student's own preferences do affect a difficult decision. The most clear example is Harry choosing Gryffindor over Slytherin in the first book.
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