Sorting Hat Stool/School Song

[Indigo]

No: HPFGUIDX 23584

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Nethilia De Lobo <nethilia at y...> wrote:
> Okay, I don't think anyone has mentioned this
> anywhere, but I noticed it while reading through SS
> intesivly to match scenes in my fic. Whe Harry is
> Sorted in SS, it's mentioned that the stool has four
> legs. However, when he misses the Sorting in PoA he
> notes Flitwick is carrying away a three legged stool.
> And the stool still has three legs. 
> 


> My question is: Is this a Flint? Or could something
> have happened to our poor little Hat Stool in the CoS
> sorting that we didn't see or know about? Mebbe
> someone broke a leg off or something...

That's possible -- or it could be that Harry was so nervous his first 
year he didn't get the number of legs on the stool right.
> 
> Also, that first year everone sings the school song.
> Why Never again? Did Dumbledore think about the awful
> cacophony of all those people signing in whatever tune
> and tone they wanted and decided this was a bad idea?
> (I doubt this, he clapped hard after the song.) But
> still...
> 
Hmm.

Well, they missed the CoS sorting, so it's possible the song was sung 
then and they didn't see it.

And during PoA,  there was the matter of Sirius Black to be 
considered.  They probably put off the singing of the song due to the 
seriousness of the situation.

In GoF,  they probably forewent the song because Durmstrang and 
Beauxbatons were there -- and likely they didn't get to sing their 
school songs, so it would've been a sign of bad hosting to sing the 
Hogwarts song.

How's that? :) 

Indigo