"Now we’ve decided that you can forgo the sorting ceremony this year and we’ve had to make some new arrangements for accommodating you. I’m afraid you can no longer be housed in your original dormitories but we have decided to room you all together in one shared common room and several dormitories." The eighth years looked around at each other, all houses seemingly waiting for someone to complain. Nothing was forthcoming, Hermione herself had suspected something like this to happen, partly in an effort to build bridges and partly because they had nowhere else to go. 