McGonagall cleared her throat, allowing for a pause, a breath to hold and release.  "Tonight, in a few moments, your robes will lose their house colors.  We will lead you to the boat house where you will disembark Hogwarts as you entered it.  This does not mean you can never identify as a Hufflepuff, or Gryffindor, or Slytherin, or Ravenclaw again - but we do hope you leave seeing one another as equals and friends, as blindly as you did on your first day here.  Would the Graduating class of 1999 please rise?"