Sorting Hats, Magic Wands & Gillyweed Dip

Sorting Hats, Magic Wands & Gillyweed Dip:  Heather & Eric

Upon our arrival at Hogwarts, as is customary for each new incoming class of students, we met for the Opening Banquet where the Sorting Hat would decide our destiny for the next 7 years.  Will it be Gryffindor, Slyterin, Ravenclaw or Hufflepuff?  Please not Slytherin!  Please not Slytherin!   

After each student was sorted, the next stop was Diagon Alley to choose our wands, or rather, have our wands choose us!

At this point we were pretty hungry so we had more than our fair share of Gillyweed Dip - we would be all set in the case that any of us needed to breathe under water later in the evening!

Recipes:

The Sorting Hats were black bean dip with black corn tortilla chips.

Magic Wands
http://www.thekitchn.com/how-to-make-grissini-cooking-lessons-from-the-kitchn-191541

They shaped them to look like Harry Potter's, Hermione's and the Elder Wand

Gillyweed Dip
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-brown/hot-spinach-and-artichoke-dip-recipe.html