<div align="center"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 14pt;"><span class="bbc_u"><strong>2022 Sorting Ceremony</strong></span></span><br/><strong>Location:</strong> The Great Hall, Hogwarts<br/><strong>Date &amp; Time:</strong> 01/09/22 - 8:00 PM<br/><strong>Tagging:</strong> Open to any and all <br/><strong>Content:</strong> Sorting 1st Years<br/><strong>Post Rate:</strong> Please read GM note below<br/></div><br/><div align="center">(https://i.pinimg.com/564x/18/c3/6c/18c36c1a6f33469a4b1efcd0ad56adf8.jpg)</div><br/>After the feast was concluded and plates were broadly empty save for those who had discovered their eyes were larger than their stomach there was a little time for conversation among all those there until Ivory stood, alongside a few other professors, and the plates were all cleared away by magic as swiftly as they had been delivered. From there the students were all urged to stand, too, so that the tables could be moved to make room for the sorting ceremony.<br/><br/>A simple wooden chair was settled in view of the room, at the base of the stairs that led to the head table. From there just about everyone could see the one sat in it. For the moment it was the deputy head, Brutus, who stood behind the chair with the old, worn sorting hat in hand ready to bring it to life when he set it on the first student's head.<br/><br/>There was a moment of quiet tension as he smiled, looking about the room and catching sight of a little nod from Shrike. In his free hand, he held a long parchment of first year's names, reading the first and committing it to memory. There was just quiet curiosity from many who were wondering who might be joining their houses before Brutus read out the first name on his list.<br/><br/><div class="spoiler_container"><div class="spoiler_header" onclick="hideSecond (this);" role="button">OOC Note - Please Read</div><div class="spoiler_body"><br/>This thread can be posted in by anyone. The teachers will be sat at the head table, still, with the other tables all moved aside a little to let there be a space for the students to sit on the chair and put on the sorting hat. The hat will always be placed onto the student's head by Brutus Hallowpetal, the deputy head.<br/><br/>If you are writing anyone but a first year they should be seated, watching and may welcome anyone who is sorted into their house when they join the house table.<br/><br/>If you are writing a first year then your character's sorting should be done in one of two ways.<br/><br/>Option one: You make a single post. In this post you detail them being called by Brutus, sitting down, conversing with the hat and being sorted all in one go. The decision making process can take anything from an instant/seconds to a minute or so. If talkative the hat will be querying, offering alternatives, and somewhat teasing in a largely warm way.<br/><br/>Option two: You make a first post having them called up, sitting down and setting the hat on their head. I can then post as the sorting hat to play out a little brief back and forth. If we do this they should be short posts. <br/><br/>I don't mind which you choose. Please don't post your character getting the hat sat on their head as someone else's character is midway through option two as that will get confusing.<br/><br/>Whoever goes first, you can assume other students went before.<br/><br/></div></div>