Deathly Hallows : Was this Explained?

Question

When Harry is pretending he is dead, and Voldemort is facing the angry Hogwartians, when the sorting hat falls from the window with the Gryffindeor sword inside it. My question is:
Who threw down the hat?
How was the Sword inside it. The Goblin took it in gringotts, and the fake was left in the Lestranges vault...?

Answer 1

okay do you remember in the Chamber of Secrets when Harry used the sword. and Dumbledoor said that only a true Gryffindor can get like that. Well it sword was going to Neville and he was a true Gryffindor. SO I am guessing because the book doesn't explain that it doesn't matter if it is stolen of lost because it will come to you whenever a true gryffindor is in need. and as for who threw it down that could have been anyone... The Ghost. or someone else....

Answer 2

I'm not sure how the hat came to Neville's hand, but I do know that he got the sword because only a true Gryffindor would be able to pull the sword out of the hat and as Neville was indeed a true Gryffindor, the sword came to him. It didn't matter that the goblin had taken it earlier in the book. It would always come back to Hogwarts where it truly belonged.

Hope this helped.

Answer 3

For the sword part, J.K.Rowling explains it as :
“Now we can reveal that Griphook was wrong,” Rowling said. The sword was truly Gryffindor’s and he didn’t steal it … Its first allegiance always was to a worthy Gryffindor, and it was going to come back when someone really, really needed it. And it came back to Neville.”

Now the Sorting Hat originally belonged to Godric Gryffindor, so that way there may have been some connection between the Hat and the Sword.

As for the Sorting Hat falling out from the Headmaster's Office window when no one was inside the Office, the only possibility I can think of is Fawkes coming to help just like in the 2nd part. Then Dumbledore had said something about him truly not leaving the place as long as those who are there are loyal to him and that help will always be given in Hogwarts to those who ask for it. So that way Fawkes may have come to help Hogwarts in it's time of need.

Answer 4

We are never told how the hat came down, but I would guess it was knocked out the window in the course of the general chaos.
J.K. Rowling: "Neville, most worthy Gryffindor, asked for help just as Harry did in the Chamber of secrets, and Gryffindor's sword was transported into Gryffindor's old hat - the Sorting Hat was Gryffindor's initially, as you know. Griphook was wrong - Gryffindor did not 'steal' the sword, not unless you are a goblin fanatic and believe that all goblin-made objects really belong to the maker."

Answer 5

Nobody threw down the Sorting Hat. It was summoned by Voldemort.

How was the Sword inside it? Godric Gryffindor, along with the 3 founders of Hogwarts, was considered as the greatest witches and wizards of the age. It would only be expected that he would have performed the most advanced magic and enchantments on the Sword that is beyond the Goblins' idea of ownership or mere physical possession of it. Neville needed it at that time, he has shown with his daringness and bravery that he is a true Gryffindor, hence he was able to pull it out of the Sorting Hat. It was just like Harry in the Chamber of Secrets. The Sword was securely hung in the Headmaster's Office, yet he was able to pull it out of the Hat to kill the Basilisk.

Answer 6

Nobody threw down the sorting hat. Voldemort summoned it down to demonstrate that there would be no more houses for students to be sorted into. . . . no more Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, or Ravenclaw.... the only house that would be left would be Slytherin's.
As for the sword of Godric Gryffindor, I don't know how it got back to the hat. It is not explained. I would have estimate that it still would have resided with Griphook, but i suppose that it could always appear to a Gryffindor in need like Longbottom.

Answer 7

Voldemort used a summoning charm to bring the hat to him.

Yes, the goblin stole the sword but because he was not a true Gryffindor, he could never have kept the sword.

When Neville showed valor and need for the sword (which are two requirements to be a true Gryffindor), he was able to pull the powerful, magical sword out of the hat.

Harry did this in book 2 and in book 7, when Dumbledore told Snape to show Harry where the sword was, he instructed Snape to make sure that Harry would have to show valor in order to retrieve the sword. Harry already needed the sword to destroy the horcruxes.

Answer 8

"Only a true Gryffindor would be able to pull THAT out of the hat."
Or so says Dumbledore in Chamber of Secrets.

Rowling meant it to reveal that Godric Gryffindor never stole the sword from goblins, but it was rightfully his. Neville pulled the sword from the hat in Deathly Hallows because he was a true Gryffindor, showing true bravery, keeping his word to Harry to kill the snake even when he believed Harry to be dead. The sword appeared to Neville in the same way it did to Harry in Chamber of Secrets. How the hat got there --well, how did the sorting hat get into the Chamber of Secrets? Maybe Fawkes had something to do with it, although Rowling never says.

Hope this helps!

Answer 9

Voldemort summoned the hat, it does not "fall". Neville was a true Gryffindor, so he was able to pull the sword out ot the hat. The sword obviously has stronger ties to Hogwarts, Globlin ideas of ownership notwithstanding.

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Answer 10

"Help will come to any one in Hogwarts for those who ask for
it." Example Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. And nevill was put in Gryffindor so, " only a true Gryffindor could of pulled the sword out of the hat" the sorting hat also has a mind of its own, its full of magic.