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Cryptophasia or Lack Thereof
Chapter 3
“SLYTHERIN!”
The Sorting Hat’s cry echoed in-between Harry’s ears for a long second, so loud had its voice been. At first he believed the following silence to be the Hat’s doing also, just as it had quieted the Great Hall entirely as it fell over his ears; then he took the hat off with his heart in a frenzy, and realized that the silence was real.
No one clapped at first. For a dreadful moment, Harry thought no one would clap for him at all. But then Professor McGonagall shook the shocked look off of her face and took the Hat from him, and the hall erupted into clamors. Continue reading