They hadn't expected the Sorting Hat to appear again.
Not mid-year. Not uncalled.But the night after the Guardian vanished, the Hat was found in the center of the Great Hall…
Sitting on the floor, facing the head table.
Burnt around the edges. Smelling of ash.
No one touched it.
Until it sang.
The Sorting Hat's Song
Its voice cracked and deepened. No cheer. No riddles.Just this:
"Four halls were never enoughFor blood that burned beneath.A fifth was born without a name—A home without belief."
"It held the seal, it drank the pact,It swallowed what we feared.But now the child of flame returns,The path no longer cleared."
"Beware the mark that burns both ways,And serpents clothed in kin.For when the fifth takes breath again,Not all will leave within."
Silence.
And then…
The Hat split open down the center.
Chaos Erupts
It didn't die.
It transformed.
The threads that once formed its brim stretched into tendrils — runic threads glowing crimson — forming the Crown of the Unwritten, the ceremonial headpiece once worn by the leaders of the Fifth House.
It floated, shimmered…
And then vanished in a burst of silver flame.
Everyone stared at Harry.
He didn't speak.
But the mark on his wrist was glowing the same red as the Hat.
Blaise Moves
Later that night, in the shadows of the Divination Tower, Blaise gathered three others.
Not Death Eaters.
Not rebels.
Just believers.
"The crown's been called," Blaise said."The Hat has chosen. The castle is listening."
"We awaken what Ardyn buried."
They didn't question.
They followed.
Final Scene – The Fifth House Symbol Returns
As the full moon rose above the lake, a new symbol shimmered across the sky:
A serpent devouring its own tail, etched in fire.
The same that once adorned the seal chamber.The same Ardyn wore as a boy.
And this time… the castle did not erase it.