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We might have misunderstood Hogwarts Houses for years

Mon, 22 Apr 2019 18:25:25 GMT

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I have a theory that the valued quality of each of the four Houses isn’t really about the personality of its students.

The valued quality of each of the four Houses has to do with how they perceive magic.

Stick with me a second: Hogwarts is a school to study magic. Magic as Hogwarts teaches it can be seen as many things: a natural talent, a gift, a weapon, etc.

So how you believe magic should be used will both reflect your personality and change how you handle that power.

“Their daring, nerve, and chivalry set Gryffindors apart,” Gryffindors perceive magic as a weapon. Gryffindors tend to excel in aggressive forms of magic, like offensive and defensive spells, and they are good at dueling. But a true Gryffindor knows that the power is a responsibility, and so they must always use their powers to stand up for what’s right. They are the sword of the righteous, which makes them as good at Defense Against the Dark Arts as they are at combat magic.

Hufflepuffs believe that magic is a gift and that the best gifts are to be given away. Hufflepuffs, “loyal and just,” would naturally abhor the idea of jealously guarding magic or using it to hurt someone else. So Hufflepuffs share their magic to benefit of Muggles, like the Fat Friar, to protect the overlooked, like Newt Scamander with his creatures, or to oppose those who would use magic to torment and bully, like the Hufflepuffs who stood with the DA and the battle of Hogwarts.

Slytherins are the opposite: they believe their magic is a treasure that they have been entrusted to protect. The Slytherin fascination with purity, with advantage, with cunning and secrecy–all of which were perverted by the Death Eaters–comes from the idea that people with magic in their veins have been given something special that it is their duty to protect at all costs. And perhaps they aren’t entirely wrong: power in the wrong hands can be dangerous. And power interfering at will with Muggle affairs is a gross presumption that could turn the course of history. Though the series shows some of the worst that Slytherin can be, “evil,” is not a natural Slytherin tendency. “Cautious,” is.

Ravenclaws believe that magic is an art form, one that is beautiful and should be appreciated and studied for its own sake. If “wit beyond measure is man’s greatest treasure,” then asking what magic is for is useless. It’s more important to immerse oneself in magic for its own sake. Ravenclaws push the boundaries of magic to see if they can, hence Hermione’s spell experiment on the DA coins being dubbed a Ravenclaw quality, but like Luna Lovegood in the pursuit of extraordinary creatures: they can also be content to plumb the depths of what already exists.

So while you can see where personalities will overlap over Houses, perhaps in Sorting we should be asking ourselves less what we think we are and more what we think we believe.

deadcatwithaflamethrower Have you seen this?

Intriguing theory.
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merriamlloydwebster:can u imagine being a scottish hogwarts student & having to go down to...

Fri, 29 Mar 2019 19:27:13 GMT

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can u imagine being a scottish hogwarts student & having to go down to london only to sit on a train for hours and then be like a can see my hoose fae the fucking train ya entitled english cunts

As someone from Edinburgh, this has ALWAYS bugged me. Poor muggleborns, having to get the train down from Edinburgh for 5 hours or whatever, JUST to get back on a train and go straight back up north.
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Being A Ravenclaw Would Include...

Thu, 30 Mar 2017 15:08:35 GMT

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Slytherin | Hufflepuff | Gryffindor

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Getting extremely excited when people start to talk about space

“DiD yOu SaY sPaCe?!”

Having the best ever conversations with other Ravenclaws at 3am

Getting frustrated at the eagle knocker when you cant figure out the riddle.

“Why is a raven like a writing desk”

“I don’t know! Can’t you just let me in it’s been like an hour!”

Listening to 90′s muggle music in the common room

Decorating the common room with art and poems etc that house mates have made

the common room being so beautifully original and obscure that everyone just smiles when they enter it

Having play readings in the common room where someone chooses and play and you all just sit and read for different characters

secret drinking games on Saturday nights

Laughing whenever someone mentions how ravenclaw are the “goodie two shoes” of all the houses because you haven’t handed homework in for at least a month

Being able to get away with a lot and using that to your advantage

Going up to the tower after a long night and finding a group of first years who can’t get into the common room

“Don’t even tell me the fucking riddle, I have been in the library for four hours and I am so fucking tired so just open the fucking door”

*Door slowly sings open the eagle knocker staying silent*

Being the second loudest table after Gryffindor

Not even caring about house points

Karaoke in the common room

Watching old disney movies in the common room while pure-bloods gather round in awe at how cute Bambi is

Using pens because if you are going to experience running out of goddamned quill ink again you are going to scream

Ravenclaw PRIDE

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werideghosthorses: 221cbakerstreet: The true north American hogwarts houses are bigfoot, mothman,...

Sat, 03 Dec 2016 19:15:16 GMT

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The true north American hogwarts houses are bigfoot, mothman, jersey devil, and the chupacabra and you’ll never convince me otherwise

Scully from the other side of the bed: I swear to god Mulder it is 6am

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masha-russia: Harry looked upward and saw a velvet

Thu, 10 Nov 2016 14:26:42 GMT

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Harry looked upward and saw a velvety black ceiling dotted with stars. He heard Hermione whisper, “Its bewitched to look like the sky outside. I read about it in Hogwarts, A History.”
It was hard to believe there was a ceiling there at all, and that the Great Hall didn’t simply open on to the heavens.

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wholitzukoonfire: oh-my-fancan: waldosbestfriend: anotherlongs...

Fri, 26 Aug 2016 20:44:16 GMT

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masha-russia:

Goblet of Fire Deleted Scene

I want to get asked out like this.

Harry and Ron look so defeated afterward

And the Durmstrang bros are barely keeping their cool as the walk away. Look at them, they’re so happy it’s adorable.

Imagine the planning that went into this.
Like the Durmstrang student would have to have gone to his friends and been like, “hey lads, you know Sally? The one with the hair like the sun from the bird house? I’m going to ask her to the yule ball, and I need your help.”
“Dude, just ask her.”

“No, I need to be impressive! We’re all going to walk up to her in sync, and then we’ll all bow because she’s amazing and we respect her, and it would be an /honor/ if she accepts. And then I’ll ask her, and then she says yes, and then we walk out like the power troup that we are!”

Buddies look at each other awkwardly, “okay…..”

This is my new otp! Like I don’t even know their names but i need a 20k fic and I need it asap!!

WHY IS NO ONE TALKING ABOUT HOW A SLYTHERIN IS HANGING OUT WITH A GRYFFINDOR AND A RAVENCLAW!!???

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