Every year, the Sorting Hat sang at the Sorting Ceremony, and every song was different. It had spent an entire year writing each one.
For example, in the year Harry enrolled, its "theme" had been not to judge by appearances... well, hats.
In the fourth year, the year the Goblet of Fire was held, it sang another song.
That was over a thousand years ago,
I had just been woven into shape,
There were four famous wizards,
Whose names are still remembered today:
Brave Gryffindor, from the wild moors,
Fair Ravenclaw, from the quiet riverbanks,
Kind Hufflepuff, from the broad valley,
Shrewd Slytherin, from that stretch of marshland.
They shared one dream, one wish,
And one bold plan as well,
To nurture young wizards into greatness,
And thus Hogwarts School was founded.
These four great wizards
Each founded their own House,
And in the students they taught,
They valued different talents and ideas.
Gryffindor believed that the bravest
Deserved the highest rewards;
Ravenclaw thought that the cleverest minds
Would always have the brightest futures;
Hufflepuff felt that the most diligent and hardworking
Were the most worthy of joining the school;
While power-hungry Slytherin
Favored ambitious young people most of all.
While the four great wizards still lived,
They personally selected their finest students,
But once they slept beneath the earth,
How would they choose the talented among their pupils?
It was Gryffindor who found the answer,
He took me from his head,
The four founders filled me with their thoughts,
And from then on, I chose and judged!
In The Matrix, when Morpheus trained Neo, he used a "sparring program." It resembled the world within the Matrix and followed the same rules, such as gravity. Pomona felt that this might be the effect of wearing Queen Maeve's diadem. This training