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Hogwarts Houses of Adult Wizards.
  • Hagrid: Hufflepuff- He is unfailingly loyal to Dumbledore and Very hard-working. The exact traits Hufflepuff values.
    • Word of God says Hagrid is in Gryffindor. [1] Also, Hagrid is incredibly brave in the books.
  • Cornelius Fudge: Slytherin- He displays a desire to keep his power as minister for magic and was always afraid that Dumbledore would take it.
  • Tonks: Gryffindor- She displays enough courage to become an Auror and fight for the Order of the Phoenix at a young age.
  • Scrimgeour: Gryffindor, pretty obviously. He's even compared to an "old lion" in the books.
  • Kingsley: Probably Ravenclaw.
  • Moody: Gryffindor.
    • There's a school of thought that Moody is so hostile to Dark Magic and Death Eaters because he had witnessed it firsthand in Slytherin.
  • Before I got on Pottermore, I assumed (correctly) that Quirrell and Ollivander were Ravenclaws.
  • Newt Scamander: this troper assumed Ravenclaw, but Pottermore says Hufflepuff.
    • And as Sorting tends to run in families, Rolf Scamander probably was in Hufflepuff.
  • Dolores Umbridge: Slytherin, with the teensiest chance of Hufflepuff. She can be fanatically loyal when it suits her.
    • The pottermore welcome letter for Slytherin says that they stick together and Umbridge is definitely keen on sticking together with her fellow Slytherins.
  • Dedalus Diggle: Yes - Dedalus Diggle. For some reason, I imagine he was a Ravenclaw. Capable, yes, but came off as somewhat odd.
  • Gilderoy Lockhart: You get the impression that Lockhart was a Gryffindor gone horribly wrong (cf. Peter Pettigrew, Cormac McLaggen) He's certainly got all of the bravado, but his actual courage and capabilities don't quite match up.
    • There's a picture of him in Ravenclaw quidditch robes in the second movie but it's debatable on how canonical that is.
    • I would say Slytherin, given how cunning and ambitious (in terms of fame) he is beneath that foppish exterior.
  • Pius Thicknesse: Slytherin. I imagine he was a pure-blood. However, he is also silver-tongued and is capable of putting on a good face for the masses - traits that Tom Riddle himself had in his early years and traits that Voldemort probably valued himself to the end.
  • Barty Crouch Senior — Slytherin. Not a bad dark wizard Slytherin, but the ambitious, political sort, akin to Horace Slughorn and the like.
  • Barty Crouch Junior — The hat *wanted* to put him in Hufflepuff, since his chief attribute is loyalty, but being a "Well Done, Son" Guy he begged to be in Slytherin like dear old dad. Unluckily for him, he was placed in Slytherin around the time of Voldy's rise to power, made friends with future death eaters, and was swayed to the dark side. It's also possible that since his father never paid him much attention, he looked to Voldemort as a replacement father figure.
    • Actually, the part about Barty and his dad is all but stated outright.
  • (Madam) Rolanda Hooch — Either Ravenclaw (she's connected with a bird Animal Motif - eyes like a hawk and she flies a lot, albeit on a broomstick)...or Hufflepuff (fair play ——> referee)
  • We can probably safely assume that any heads of houses were students of said houses during their time at Hogwarts.
    • Likewise for the House ghosts.
  • Aurora Sinistra: Ravenclaw. It would probably take a good brain for something specialized like the study of magic as it relates to stars.
  • Ludo Bagman: Slytherin. His nature is a bit slippery, and one can imagine that his housing didn't help matters at his trial. His age isn't given, but it's fairly likely that he was contemporaries with at least some of the first-generation Death Eaters. Yet, somehow he managed to slither in to a Ministry position after that trial and worked his way to becoming the head of the Department of Magical Games and Sports.
  • Rita Skeeter: Ravenclaw. Yes, her bitchy nature pretty much screams "Slytherin", but that seems a bit too easy. She seems to be a sucker for knowledge - or more specifically, knowing things that other people don't. (And then she twists that knowledge for her own ends, knowing that people also want to feel like they know things other's don't.)
    • It's also implied she's smarter and more magically skilled than she lets on. She was able to successfully become an Animagus, which requires significant skill in Potions and Transfiguration, is incredibly hard to get right, and has disastrous consequences when done wrong.
  • Professor Trelawney: Ravenclaw. Fits right in with being somewhat obsessed with knowledge (in her case, knowledge of the future), but weird and batty as all hell.
  • Amos Diggory: Hufflepuff, pretty obviously.
  • Charity Burbage: Hufflepuff. Hufflepuffs are usually described as being fair, and her job has been to teach Muggle Studies, which presumably includes discussion on the ways Muggles and Wizards are similar, and the fact that they share humanity. Also, Hufflepuffs are known as being a bit low-key and friendly. Rowling, being a linguist, never gets to be quite Anvilicious with the names of her characters, but also never names one by accident, so one can assume that someone with the name 'Charity' was probably friendly. Also, (and maybe this was unintentional) Charity Burbage isn't mentioned at all by name until Book 7, despite having taught Hermione in Muggle Studies in Book 3.
  • Professor Vector: Ravenclaw. Someone would likely have to be pretty brainy to figure out exactly how math and magic fit together.
  • Aberforth Dumbledore: Hufflepuff. He's hardworking and loyal to his family, having been willing to drop his education to care for Ariana and running an inn by himself despite being in his 110s. He's also overlooked compared to his brother, which fits the way Hufflepuff House is treated.
  • Dean Thomas' father: Slytherin. One of the genuinely good Slytherins. Word of God says the Death Eaters killed him for refusing to join their cause. They'd be more likely to approach him about it if he was in Slytherin like so many Death Eaters were.

Muggles don't have souls.
Wizards assume that muggles don't make ghosts because they're lack of magic prevents their souls from staying in this world, but it could be that they just don't have souls. I'm surprised Death Eaters never made that point.
  • The dementor wouldn't have tried to "kiss" Dudley if muggles didn't have souls.
  • Jossed. Dudley is the perfect example of muggles having souls.

The parents of Muggleborns always die shortly after the Mugglebborns are of age.
As a direct result of being murdered.
  • So Hermione murdered her parents after sending them to Australia so that they would be safe? Yeah, that makes sense.

A LOT of Muggleborns from the 80s can see Thestrals
The ability to see Thestrals is caused when you see someone die and understand exactly what death is. Magician Tommy Cooper died on live television of a heart attack, and his death was announced later. Now, who's to say that quite a lot of young Muggleborns were watching? The reason Harry didn't, you may ask? He was 2-3 and the Dursleys are bastards. I'd expect someone Percy's age to see them, however.

The "green flash" people see sometimes at sunset is actually wizards far far away on the horizon trying to kill each other.
Just because.

Santa Claus is a wizard.

So tell me, what magical creature exists in the Harry Potter universe that has to serve their master no matter what? House Elves. What does floo powder do in order to teleport you? Puts you in the fireplace. The Reindeer? Their sleighbells are enchanted, enabling Santa to fly at super speeds just like Mr. Weasley's car. He used to use reindeer before he was aware of the existence of floo powder and had a smaller rout than he does now.

  • And he has a time turner, allowing him to visit several houses at once. That's how he manages to visit the world's entire population of kids (except those who don't celebrate Christmas or believe in Santa) in one night.
    • Love this WMG! Maybe there's a Chocolate Frog card for Nicholas of Myra. Could be a lot of "Saints" were actually magic users.

J.K. Rowling works for the Daily Prophet, and Michael Gerber (author of the spoof series "Barry Trotter") works for the Quibbler.
Both "Harry Potter" and its spoof, "Barry Trotter," were originally written for Wizarding audiences. Rowling is a witch, either a half-blood or a muggle-born. She originally wrote "Harry Potter" as a biography, after interviewing Harry and agreeing to help him set the record straight, after Rita Skeeter wrote her version of the events. The book wound up in Muggle stores by mistake, but no harm was done; everyone thought it was just another fantasy story. Rowling took advantage of this, and now markets "Harry Potter" both to muggles as fiction, and to wizards as non-fiction.
  • Alternately, Harry Potter was an AUT Obiography - Harry was created to protect Rowling's identity.

Comical Writer Michael Gerber, meanwhile, is also a wizard with some muggle relations. As such, he writes for a number of humor magazines, both muggle and magical—including the Quibbler. He wrote "Barry Trotter" to spoof Pottermania, but his muggle readers only get half the joke. His wizarding readers understand that he is spoofing not just Harry's biography, but also the way it became popular among muggles. But of course, the only wizards who even read "Barry Trotter" are the Slytherins, and Fred and George Weasley.

  • But... if the books were intended for a wizard audience, why do they spend so much time explaining the wizarding world and none whatsoever explaining any of the Muggle concepts so familiar to Harry? Especially in the first book, the wizarding world is meticulously introduced to the reader, explaining all the concepts that wizards would know anyway — but when the narrative mentions TV or computers or shotguns, things wizard would need an explanation for, no explanation is given.
    • Because it's spoofing the Muggles' perspectives of Harry Potter and the wizarding world. Note that the wizarding world Gerber describes is nothing like the real one; it's much sillier, and raunchier. The Muggle world, he doesn't have to change much, because Muggles are already hilariously pathetic to wizards.
  • Or, perhaps she accidentally sent it to a muggle editor, who wrote her back saying that the book had great promise, and he thought she could make a lot of money off of it, but he was puzzled as to why she was taking so much time to explain the functions of video games and electric kettles while leaving out so much about this fascinating magical world. JK figured it would be good reverse psychology (as per an example far above): propose to the muggles a world of wizards right under their noses, and tell them about ridiculously famous war hero Harry Potter as if he was a fictional character, which had the added bonus in that, if questioned about him, a wizard could always state they were talking about a book character. So she re wrote parts of the book to explain the magic instead of the muggle world, and voila!
  • Or maybe she always intended Harry Potter for muggle audiences. At least since The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, witches have been portrayed as forces for good, and not someone you should burn at the stake. So the HP books were made to test the waters: a primer on Wizarding Britain, written for Muggles, disguised as an Urban Fantasy series. Depending on the reaction received, the wizards may have come out of the broom closet, so to speak. However, while the main characters are adored, the general opinion of the Ministry of Magic is that it is filled with incompetent Jerkasses. Reform needs to happen before they join Muggle Society.

To Create a Horcrux...
You are required to go to Norfolk. The idea of anyone going there would make anyone throw up, as one editor who learnt about the complete process from Rowling herself did

Very few professional Quidditch players were in Slytherin.
With few exceptions, Slytherin players are Jerk Jocks with a history of fouls and cheating. They might have gotten away with that in school, but professional teams probably wouldn't want someone like that on the team.

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