His father, Harry, was more grizzled, older, with specks of grey hair on his face and in his short beard. Harry sometimes wore a comical pointed blue hat, but it was tucked away in a corner of the room; it was not the only hat in the room. The dreaming, Albus had a feeling of reminiscence as he saw a tattered black hat which appeared to have a face. It was the sorting hat, the very hat that had placed him in Gryffindor on his first day in Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry.His father was trying to look administerial, he had always struggled to remain officious while in the role of headmaster, Albus remembered that the role had never suited him, and to this day, he sometimes wondered what possessed his father to take the position.