Edwin brought his hand up, waving it to stop any speculation. "Guys, guys, I know this one. I know you were under the impression that I wasn't nerdy in any way, but I'm about to shatter that illusion for you," he said, not even getting through the statement before he was laughing. "So, the Sorting Hat is sentient, and it's enchanted with the intelligence of the four founders of Hogwarts, which the houses are named after, and then it reads the kids' minds and kind of figures it out from there. So it's just a really good judge of character... But yeah, it's still going to make mistakes sometimes, it's just really rare, and the hat'll say otherwise. Guys, I may have been the right age to go to more than one book release party. Dressed as a Death Eater. I mean, what? Who thinks Lupin and Sirius belonged together? Not... Not this guy..."