[ SECRET POST #2961 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2961 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Alexander Siddig/Star Trek; Deep Space 9/Vertical Limit/Poirot/24]


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[Transformers: Fall of Cybertron]


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[Nightwish]


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Notes:

Better early than late!

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 024 secrets from Secret Submission Post #423.
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Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[fscom]

01. http://oi60.tinypic.com/20tf5u1.jpg

[(Anonymous)]

It keeps it up near the tip of the hat. That's why it's a pointy hat. So it has somewhere to keep its brain.

[raspberryrain]

Eh, works for me.

[blitzwing]

I always considered that kind of a speciesist statement on Mr. Weasley's part.

[(Anonymous)]

..why? Is Hatsism a thing?

[(Anonymous)]

Check your coat privilege.

[blitzwing]

Laugh all you want, but Mr. Weasley clearly has a bias for human-like forms that typically possess a physical brain.

[(Anonymous)]

Maybe all those beings which are sentient but not shaped like lifeforms which could easily be regarded as possessing a brain really are evil, though. Except for the Sorting Hat. Maybe that's the one exception. I mean, how the hell do we know? It's a fantasy world. Maybe there really are sentient doorknobs that go around tricking wizard children and this is just the sort of thing that wizard parents have to teach them.

[(Anonymous)]

That is... a bit of an odd thing to get hung up about...

[(Anonymous)]

OP said as much in their secret...

[elaminator]

This is both an odd quote (which I completely forgot about) and an odd thing to still be thinking about. Not that I haven't wondered about dumber things (for longer, I imagine), so you'll get no judgement here.

I guess it has a (traditional) brain? Or...doesn't and it boils down to ~magic~.

[(Anonymous)]

Ask Godric Gryffindor, it was allegedly his hat.

[(Anonymous)]

Perhaps he left his brain in the hat xD

[kallanda_lee]

Well, maybe it shouldn't be trusted - not blindly, anyway? After all, can't your own desire to get into a certain house affect it?

[making_excuses]

[forgottenjester]

In its butt.

Don't ask where its butt is.

[(Anonymous)]

It helps if you think of the hat like Mary Poppins's bag. You never know what is in there: a lamp, a sword, a mirror, a brain.

Transcript

[(Anonymous)]

Image: Arthur Weasley, with the quote “Never trusta anything that can think for itself if you can’t see where it keeps its brain.” Harry Potter with the sorting hat on.

Text: Right. Thanks for letting us know, Mr. Weasley.

So where does it keep its bloody brain then?!

(the hat, not Harry)

And yet everyone does trust it, don’t they?

This has bothered me since 1998 So stupid, it doesn’t even matter.

[diet_poison]

I have never thought of this before.

But now that I do think of it, I think the hat doesn't necessarily "think for itself" the way we do. The hat strikes me as being the magical version of a VI, not an AI. It's programmed (bewitched, more like) to do a specific thing, and it does it.

[solarbird]

Yeah, it's code, and where I think it's running is in the brain of the person putting it on.

Its brain is in your head, OP.

Your head.

[diet_poison]

lol I hadn't thought of it that way either but I kinda like the concept.

[alenxa]

Yeah, it bugs me when I remember it too. Which, thankfully, isn't often or severe. But you're not completely alone.

[(Anonymous)]

That bothered me too, OP! I feel like in the day I even read a fanfic or some meta about it, but I have no idea where, sorry. Just wanted to let you know you are definitely not alone.

[lb_lee]

Maybe the hat was organizing everything behind the scenes! Who would suspect an innocent hat?

--Sneak