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Page of doodlings (page 2) "This is a page of doodlings from which the Sorting Hat emerged. In the top part of the page are all the possible ways of 'sorting' people I considered... a panel of ghosts or prefects, a magical gateway through which each person would have to pass and so on. I also thought of drawing names out of a hat, which became the sorting hat, and at the bottom right corner you see my first drawing of the Sorting Hat, with the first four lines of its first ever song".

(Ghost) Court		N Hat			M		Question or Riddle M Arbitrary List		M Gateway		M Statues		N Selection Committee MN (Prefects/ Hs of H etc) 		Forget Song, Just put on Hat. ___________________________________      Dumbledore |			Does Scar Forest 			have to happen Quidditch Trials 		at feast Corridor		~Snape~ Oh I [??? >] might not [be that >] look too pretty		Dumbledore & Snape		But don't judge on what you see Peeves		I'll eat myself if you can find A smarter hat than me

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[back of page] [crossed out: Harry woke up next morning because somebody had just] "Time to [?wake] up, gentlemen, breakfast will be served in half an hour." Harry [???? >] looked around [> up] at the red velvet curtains drawn around his four-poster. [I'm at Hogwart's was>] His first [??? >] happy thought was "I'm at Hogwarts;" his second, after he had thrown back the curtains and found his slippers was "I'm hungry." The third [thing he had never >] was something he had never thought [> needed to think] before. His thought [It >] was "That man's completely transparent." After he had thought this, his mind went [deleted: completely] blank. He sat frozen, staring at the man in the middle of his dormitory who had just woken them all up. There was no doubt about it. [This was > He was seeing >] There was a ghost at the foot of his bed. "Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington at your service," said the ghost, sweeping [off] his broad-brimmed [hat] and bowing to them all - for Ron, Seamus, [?Gary], and Neville were also staring open mouthed at him, "Resident Ghost of Gryfinndor Tower."