J.K. Rowling 'borrowed' the Sorting Hat

Here we mentioned our discovery that J.K. Rowling borrowed the phrase 'He Who Must Not Be Named' from the late Terry Pratchett's book 'The Colour of Magic' which predated Rowling's 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone' by 14 years.
'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone' was released in 1997, while 'The Colour of Magic' appeared in 1983.

Well, at the time I naturally thought it could be a case of subliminal or subconscious imitation, but know I've found second correlation.

In 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone' we encounter the sorting hat, a talking wizard's hat that sorts new students of Hogwarts into their houses.

But in Terry Pratchett's 'Sourcery', which entered the market in 1988, we also encounter a talking hat. It is the hat worn by every Archchancellor of the Unseen University since its inception and it speaks to Rincewind 'like a voice in your head'.
Also, '… through me speak all the Archchancellors that who ever lived', which is also strangely reminiscent of J.K. Rowlings Sorting Hat, because in her short story 'The Sorting Hat', Rowling writes that 'It literally contains the intelligence of the four founders'.

We now have a second instance of 'borrowing' by J.K. Rowling because 'Sourcery' is 9 year older than 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'. It is like the famous saying: once is chance, twice is coincidence, third Time is a pattern.

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