Sorting Hat

The Sorting hat is a bewitched item which main purpose is to sort a first year wizard or whitch into their rightful house.
==Abilities==
Since the Sorting Hat is a bewitched item it has abilities such as talking and reading a witches or wizards mind when the hat is put into the persons head. It has been said you cannot hide anything from the hat.
==Sorting==
The Sorting hat was created to sort any witch or wizard into it's correct house. There are four houses.
*Gryffindor for the brave and courageous people
*Slytherin for the witches/wizards with a goal set mind
*Hufflepuff for the miscellaniouse but because Albus didn't
want their feelings to be hurt he made Hufflepuff for the "kind."
*Ravenclaw for the smart and witful.