The missing chapter

[pandrea100]

No: HPFGUIDX 103704

<gopotter2004 at y...> wrote:
> One story that was vaguely mentioned that I can see being highly
> important is that of a clash that leads to Salazar Slytherin leaving
> hogwarts and making it never the same again... the sorting hat says
> about this much and then goes on with the song in OotP... 

That's a very good point.  I did think that it was a little unusual 
that the hat suddenly launched into this song, perhaps she was 
setting up this 6th book knowing that she'd put the full story there. 
And with the increasing importance of the theme of prejudice - 
mudblood, halfblood, pureblood - the second half of the song about 
how the school must unite and the Hat worries that it is making 
things worse, could now take on greater importance.  After all, that 
whole chapter was titled The Sorting Hat's New Song, which makes it 
seem significant, but it didn't really prove to be in OotP.

Pandrea