Stella asks: What if the Sorting Hat started saying random words instead of houses?
What If World - Stories for Kids
Eric O'Keeffe / What If World LLC
4.5 • 6.5K Ratings
🗓️ 13 September 2021
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
Long ago in 2001, when Abacus first opened his magical school, many of his students begged to be sorted. But when Abacus conjures a Sorta Hat to do the job, his magic is as unreliable as ever…
Lessons include: labeling people is a recipe for cruelty; grownups and professionals have feelings, too.
This episode originally aired November 6th, 2017.
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| 1:40.3 | I'm Mr. Rarik your host and it's back to school time around much of the world. |
| 1:45.3 | So we're playing an abacus story I'm rather fond of about the start of his wizarding school. |
| 1:52.3 | But first let's hear our question from Stella. |
| 1:55.3 | I want to fall. I'm Stella from Sydney, Australia. |
| 2:00.3 | And what if our question is what if the sorting hat from Hogwarts started saying random words instead of the houses at the start of the year? |
| 2:08.3 | Thank you again Stella for that great question. |
| 2:11.3 | Now let's hear our story. What if the sorting hat from Hogwarts started saying random words instead of houses at the start of the year? |
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