Another question.

[zanooda2]

Hi guys, in PS/SS ch.7 there is a sentence I can't fully understand. It's when McGonagall brings in the Sorting hat for the new students to be sorted. Here is the sentence (Harry's thoughts):

"Maybe they had to try and get a rabbit out of it, Harry thought wildly, that seemed the sort of thing - noticing that everyone in the Hall was now staring at the hat, he stared at it too" (p.117 Am.ed. or p.87-88 Br. ed.). 

What I don't understand is this part: "that seemed the sort of thing". What does it even mean? Is it about the Hat? Did the Hat seem like a hat magicians usually get rabbits out of, LOL? I don't understand it, and in every translations that I read translators skipped this part of the sentence (even in the French translation) - I guess they don't understand it either :-). Could anyone explain this, please :-)?


zanooda