Foreshadowings/discoveries in Chamber of Secrets

[cunning_spirit]

No: HPFGUIDX 113546

> 
>   Jenny's question:
>   Is it Gryffindor's hat? I don't have my books here, but all I
>   remember is 'Sorting Hat'. I don't remember it being called
>   GG hat. Harry pulled GG's sword out of the hat because HP
>   was a true Gryffindor, and because that was what HP needed
>   (any maybe what GG could provide to HP) to defeat the
>   basillisk. If HP had been in another house, he probably would
>   have pulled something associated with RR or HH from the hat.

One of the Sorting Hat's annual poems tells the tale of it's creation when Godric Gryffindor, 
in an effort to solve the problem of sorting future classes of incoming students after he 
and the other founders had passed on, by snatching the hat he wore off his head and 
enchanting it to perform the sorting operation.

-cunning spirit