--- title: "1.07 The Sorting Hat" date: 2017-08-14T00:00:00-00:00 draft: false tags: - Philosopher's Stone episodeTitle: "The Sorting Hat" episodeSubtitle: "Sort, sort, sort, sort, sort, sort. He said me haffi sort, sort, sort, sort, sort, sort." episodeLength: 31501086 episodeURL: https://cdn.podtrificustotalus.com/stone/107TheSortingHat.mp3 episodeDuration: 39:57 episodeSeason: 1 episodeNumber: 7 featuredImage: /pottermore/107.webp --- {{< audio src="https://cdn.podtrificustotalus.com/stone/107TheSortingHat.mp3" >}} We're back after a short break for a new episode of Podtrificus Totalus, a Harry Potter podcast done chapter by chapter, book by book! This week's episode covers chapter seven of *Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone*, "The Sorting Hat." Harry and his fellow first-years at last arrive at Hogwarts and face the titular Sorting Hat, who places them into the four houses: Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, and Slytherin. We make a number of references to outside sources and pop culture in this episode, which are listed below: - [Neville Chamberlain](https://www.britannica.com/biography/Neville-Chamberlain), former Prime Minister - [Longbotom Leaf](http://lotr.wikia.com/wiki/Pipe-weed) from J.R.R. Tolkien's *The Lord of the Rings* trilogy - The [Fat Friar](http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Fat_Friar) on the Harry Potter Wiki - [Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington](http://harrypotter.wikia.com/wiki/Nicholas_de_Mimsy-Porpington) on the Harry Potter Wiki - Lewis Carroll's ["Jabberwocky"](https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/42916/jabberwocky) - [Garlic Bread](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/59/Garlicbread.webp) - [/u/principled_principal's thread about Michael Gambon](https://www.reddit.com/r/harrypotter/comments/6svz4h/im_rewatching_all_the_movies_for_the_first_time/) on /r/harrypotter - *Ultimate Unofficial Guide to the Mysteries of Harry Potter* by Galadriel Waters (Ed. Astre Mithrandir; Published by Wizarding World Press in 2003) Our spell of the week for this episode is Spongify, which Neville may have used when dangled out of a window by his uncle. We also answer a listener email correcting us on information from [1.05 Diagon Alley](/105/).