SCENE 3: **Back in the Great Hall, the Sorting Ceremony is about to take place. Professor McGonagall places the Sorting Hat on the chair, and it begins to sing:**

The Sorting Hat Song (Sung to the tune of 'Sixteen Going on Seventeen')

(The Sorting Hat)
You wait, little ones, in this vast Great Hall

And let there be no doubt now

Your fate, little ones, listen for your call

And what I'm going to spout now



(First years waiting to be sorted)
To spout now!


(The Sorting Hat)
Will you be in Gryffindor, Hufflepuff

Will it be Slytherin?

Ravenclaw's fine, a favorite of mine

If I say you're in, you're in


Will you be in Gryffindor, Ravenclaw

Maybe in Hufflepuff

Slytherin's keen, if you're kind of mean

It means you've got "the right stuff"


Hufflepuffs are such hard workers

And kind of boring too

But if you're the shy and quiet type

They'll be adoring you



That leaves only one house, Gryffindor

And if you're brave and strong

This house will be it, it's such a good fit

It's where you belong




McGonagall: Ginny Weasley!



**Ginny sits on the Sorting stool and the hat is placed on her head**

(Sorting Hat, singing so only she can hear)
Ginny Weasley, you're a Gryffindor

Where else could I place you?

Ron and Percy, and Bill and Charlie

And Fred and George were there too


All you redheads end up in Gryffindor

'Least you're the last for now

Seven years in with that set of twins

Is quite enough, that I vow!


And I know that you're pleased as well

To be in Harry's house

If you're in luck, and show some pluck

Someday you'll be his spouse


But, I sense another voice calling you

Someone who's Slytherin-

Something evil is coming to Hogwarts

What's this touch of sin?




**During this song, Snape has risen from his place at the head table and has left the Great Hall. At the end of the song, he reappears and whispers something to Dumbledore and McGonagall, they follow him to the corridor.**