As you can see from Kirah's post, the time skip has happened. Hopefully this gets us going. If you have a first year character, please decide how you want the Sorting to go and write up a short bit description of what happened so we can put the sorting all in one post. Depending on your character and how much detail you want to go into, it can be anything from a Malfoy-type thing where the house shouts out the house before even touching the person or a near-hatstall and you can relate to us the "conversation" the hat has with your character. Please send that to me sometime within the next few days.