The Sorting Hat - still there?

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 180572

---  "sbursztynski" <greatraven at ...> wrote:
>
> Did I miss something in my reading or what? Nineteen years 
> after Voldemort destroyed the Sorting Hat, it's still there,
> sorting kids into Houses. Did it get repaired, somehow? Did
> they  make a new one - and if so, was it like the old one 
> in taking note of student preferences? Or was it just another
> piece of text that wasn't edited? :-)
> 
> Just wondering.
> Sue
>

bboyminn:

The Sorting Hat was set aflame, but that doesn't necessarily 
mean it was burn, and it certainly doesn't mean it was 
destroyed.

Remember when Dumbledore first met Tom Riddle at the orphanage,
he set the wardrobe aflame. Yet it wasn't burned or harmed in
anyway. 

Now, it might have been singed a little, but I think that was
the extent of the damage. No reason to think it wasn't 
available for the next and many more sortings.

Steve/bboyminn