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The Sorting Hat - Which House?
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I'm curious which houses people would sort themselves into? I would love to say Ravenclaw but I'm a Gryffindor through and through.
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I'd like to say Ravenclaw too, but I'd probably be sent off to Hufflepuff.Oh, hey, I went to Pottermore and checked - I did make one error (hitting select instead of the arrow to see other choices on the scents of the lure of the Flutterby bush) but was sent to Ravenclaw!
I'm just the opposite. I would love to say I'm a Gryffindor but am unquestionably a Ravenclaw. Pottermore.com actually has a "sorting" hat feature - answer a few questions/preferences and it sorts you into your house. One of those crazy things I ran across on Twitter.
I got sorted into Slytherin!!!
Ravenclaw, RavenclawWere the smart kids we're Ravenclaw…
When I did the Pottermore test, I purposefully got myself into Slytherin. Now, you can say I wouldn't have done that if I weren't a Slytherin, but the truth is I wanted to be the most bookwormy member of my House, and there was simply no guarantee of that if I'd gotten myself into Ravenclaw.
I did this a couple of years ago and got Gryffindor. The personality traits of Slytherin are not at all like me. The sorting hat is wrong and I'm stuck in the wrong house. Sigh.
Pottermore put me in Hufflepuff. I was surprised but I suppose it fits. I'm also a Potter.
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Were the smart kids we're Ravenclaw…
When I did the Pottermore test, I purposefully got myself into Slytherin. Now, you can say I wouldn't have done that if I weren't a Slythe..."
That is SUCH a Slytherin thing to do! ;-)
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Haha!
House Stark was a thing, so the legends go, but they got kicked out for cutting their sausages with swords and answering all written exams with only the words "Winter Is Coming."
Also, Ravenclaw, represent! Where all the Rowenas at?
I have never read the books, but this link caught my attention, so I tried it. I am a Gryffindor. I have no idea if that is good or not.
Gryffindor's have these qualities: Bravery
Nerve
Chivalry
Courage
Daring
Funny thing, I have never considered myself much of these things.
Yeah, well I got Slytherin:Resourcefulness
Cunning
Ambition
Self-Preservation
Fraternity
Well, I'm semi-resourceful? Other than that none fit.
Another Ravenclaw here, according to the sorting game on Pottermore.
YouKneeK wrote: "Another Ravenclaw here, according to the sorting game on Pottermore."Do you agree with it?
Sarah Anne wrote: "Yeah, well I got Slytherin:Resourcefulness
Cunning
Ambition
Self-Preservation
Fraternity"
When you put it like that, I guess I could be Slytherin. Some of my reading goals are quite ambitious, and I have Jane Eyre's sense of self-preservation.
I always thought I would unquestionably be a Slytherin, and when Pottermore came about it agreed with me.
Sarah Anne wrote: "Do you agree with it?"Yes, I think so. It’s the house I would have chosen for myself, anyway. I wasn’t too sure where it would put me though, because my answers to the questions seemed to be all over the place in terms of which house I thought they represented.
I came out Ravenclaw too but I guessed I would when I chose the rolled up scroll over the gold and jewels etc
Phrynne wrote: "I came out Ravenclaw too but I guessed I would when I chose the rolled up scroll over the gold and jewels etc"I don't think I had that question?
I usually get Gryffindor from the questionnaires.All I can say is I'd have gotten expelled if the Slytherins treated me like they treat the Gryffindors in the books.
Joe wrote: "All I can say is I'd have gotten expelled if the Slytherins treated me like they treat the Gryffindors in the books."It always felt skewed somehow, like the Slytherins were being unfairly villified and the Gryffindors could do no wrong in the eyes of the narrator. Rhetoric is a beautiful thing, isn't it?
Alia wrote: "It always felt skewed somehow, like the Slytherins were being unfairly villified and the Gryffindors could do no wrong in the eyes of the narrator. Rhetoric is a beautiful thing, isn't it? "On the contrary, it felt like the Slytherins (at least the "big important" ones) could do things that would normally get people expelled and get away with it, as long as it was done towards Harry or his friends. It's why I never bought the Snape turnaround.
Hogwarts: Slytherin. I have always identified myself as a Slytherin. I am quite resourceful and pragmatic. Gryffindor is too idealistic/gungho for me. Hufflepuff is a bit too nice and Ravenclaw looks tiring (need to solve a puzzle just to get into my dorm? Gosh)Ilvermorny: Thunderbird. The description fits me as well.
Joe wrote: "On the contrary, it felt like the Slytherins (at least the "big important" ones) could do things that would normally get people expelled and get away with it, as long as it was done towards Harry or his friends. It's why I never bought the Snape turnaround."I don't agree that this is just a Slytherin problem, or just a Gryffindor problem. I've started with a reread of the series this month, and I can honestly say students in both the houses do things that would get them expelled in any other school. The only difference is that when the protagonist Gryffindors break the rules and do things that are outright dangerous, illegal, and which no teacher authorised them to do (except maybe Dumbledore, who I feel actually encourages them), they get rewarded because they've done them with noble, heroic intent. Whereas Slytherins on the other hand are always villified because their reasons are always presented as only selfish, power hungry, and amoral, not ambitious (if in some cases horribly misguided). It's the roles the main characters who represent these houses were cast into by J.K. Rowling for plot purposes, but in reality it would not be so black and white. But then, this is a school in which Hagrid is allowed to keep a population of acromantula's very near a school full of children - acromantula's which could at any moment decide the animals in the forest don't provide sufficient sustenance - and which only considers closing down for safety purposes once someone is actually presumed to have died rather than when a ghost, a being already dead, is alarmingly made more dead, never even mind the petrified students someone is taking credit for attacking. Rules are clearly very lenient at Hogwarts.
Well it is a school of magical and certain rules will be bent. However, I see the treatment of students as an analogy of high schoolers in general. Some get away with shenanigans and some do not.
I'm Ravenclaw! (Though I sort of suck at riddles and would perpetually be stuck outside by dorm area...)For Ilvermorny I'm a Puckwudgie, which I'm not sure I'm happy about... so I'll stick with Ravenclaw. :>
Is there a way to sort for Ilvermorny?
Yes it is on the same site right below the sorting hat. there is also a wand sorting.
I found it. I was sorted into Thunderbird.
I was sorted into Ravenclaw. For Ilvermorny, I was sorted into Horned Serpent. Seems to fit :)
I would like to be Ravenclaw, but sorted into slytherin in Pottermore.))
Joe wrote: "On the contrary, it felt like the Slytherins (at least the "big important" ones) could do things that would normally get people expelled and get away with it, as long as it was done towards Harry or his friends. It's why I never bought the Snape turnaround."Who did. But Sirius got away with trying to kill a person, Peter was trusted because he was in Gryffindor and apparently for no other reason, and even Snape said he would not have let his students stay in school if they did the sort of thing McGonnagal let the golden trio get away with.
Even so, I believe Snape was on the fence right up until he got mortally wounded. And the bit about him loving Lily was just bullshit. But it was him Sirius tried to kill.
I think the last time I took the test, I got sorted into Hufflepuff. Which is kinda suck, if you ask me, because it's the least discussed House in the series lol. So, I just took it again, and apparently I'm a Gryffindor. Weird.
I would have hoped I'd be in Ravenclaw, but I'm kind of proud to find myself in Slytherin. :)
Well, no surprise. I was sorted into Slytherin. I think this is a fitting and balanced description of Slytherin:
"Slytherins tend to be ambitious, shrewd, cunning, strong leaders, and achievement-oriented. They also have highly developed senses of self-preservation. This means that Slytherins tend to hesitate before acting, so as to weigh all possible outcomes before deciding exactly what should be done."
My Ilvermorny house is Wampus.
Valerie wrote: "My Ilvermorny house is Wampus."I liked the description of that one :)
I think I could go either Ravenclaw of Hufflepuff, but I'd prefer Hufflepuff. Pottermore actually says Gryffindor though... But I think it's crap. Hufflepuff for life!
Dawn wrote: "Pottermore actually says Gryffindor though... But I think it's crap. Hufflepuff for life!"I totally agree :) Slytherin doesn't describe me at all.
I think the sorting test on Pottermore has been changed more than once. I know I have tried it more than once and been sorted into Gryffindor, Ravenclaw and (most recently) Hufflepuff. I probably never would have picked Hufflepuff but as I get older friends and family take a more important role in my life so maybe its appropriate now? I also just tried the Ilvermorny sorting and got Pukwudgie but I really don't have a good enough understanding of the American houses to decide if that's good or not. What does the "heart of the wizard" mean? And why is the "heart" named after a magical creature known for being cruel and vindictive?
I got Gryffindor the first time, too.
I wonder if you change your answers as compared to the sorting changing the algorithm. I would love to know if the algorithm was changed.
Papaphilly wrote: "I wonder if you change your answers as compared to the sorting changing the algorithm. I would love to know if the algorithm was changed."I avtually think it weighs in favour of "not Slytherin". Which sounds unfair, but makes sense when you think about it, since you'd really have to be a Slytherin to get in.
I always try for Slytherin, but have sorted Gryffindor before. I think the best fit for me is Ravenclaw though, since I love knowledge and books.My Ilvermorny house is Pukwudgie. I don't know what that means though.
The Ilvermorny ones are really not well described.
Alia wrote: "It always felt skewed somehow, like the Slytherins were being unfairly villified and the Gryffindors could do no wrong in the eyes of the narrator."The problem is that Slytherins fell between two stools. On one hand, you had the classic (comic) trope of Team Evil; on the other hand, you had serious treatments of good and evil. They do not work harmoniously together. I could imagine several treatments of the house that would work seriously and not take too much change from the books -- but we didn't get that.
Did anyone take the Patronus quiz? Mine was a Red Squirrel.
