I was under the impression Hogwarts was founded over a millennium ago. With a wizard’s lifespan being around 200 at most, the founders would need to have raised Hogwarts as infants for the hat to only have existed for 800 years.
You are here for the class that has been taught at Hogwarts for eight hundred years! Welcome to your first year of Battle Magic!
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I’m the General of Sunshine, but even before that, I’m Hermione Granger of Ravenclaw, and I’m proud to be part of a House that’s eight hundred years old.
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You told me that no one had matched the four founders of Hogwarts. So it’s been going on for at least eight centuries, then?
ETA: Oh, haha, maybe I should have just gone with
Harry winced. Hermione had been the one to explain to him about the Sorting Hat, but she certainly didn’t treat it like an irreplaceable, vitally important, 800-year-old artifact of forgotten magic that was about to perform intricate telepathy on her mind and didn’t seem to be in very good physical condition.
I wonder, what was its last prank?
The actual quote is 800 years, which is how long the Hat’s existed.
I was under the impression Hogwarts was founded over a millennium ago. With a wizard’s lifespan being around 200 at most, the founders would need to have raised Hogwarts as infants for the hat to only have existed for 800 years.
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ETA: Oh, haha, maybe I should have just gone with