Pottermore Sorting House Quiz

Unfortunately no. But the quiz is worth it, and you can always put the game on mute and listen to music.

Haven't taken the test yet, but I'll probably be in Slytherin.

Gryffindor :(

I'm a Ravenclaw, I tell you. RAVENCLAW!

The test is rigged, so people would often end up in houses that they wouldn't really belong in.

...—got the house wanted—

Ravenclaw.

Rigged? Excuse me, but that seems kinda wrong considering what the quiz was and the fact that there was an equal distribution.

I see no evidence of that.

Notice how the results are almost exactly balanced between the houses?

Isn't that proof of it not being rigged?

...well, yes, I'd say the questions are vague enough there would be a general balance, and considering how Ravenclaws have a good 60k less people than Gryffindors...

Gryffindor has 734,296 members, Ravenclaw has 660,710 members, Hufflepuff has 709,672 members, and Slytherin has 697,260 members. While that is pretty balanced, there is still a gap of 73,586 members between Gryffindor and Ravenclaw, so it's hardly a perfect balance...

Ravenclaw get!... Not surprising.

@death: But when you put it like that... Hmmm, it's hard to say really.

Ravenclaw often seems to be the favourite house among fans, while Gryffindor is often the least favoured one.

I guess it's because Ravenclaw is often seen as the nerdy, bookish house for many of the bookish, socially withdrawn readers of the books (I didn't mean that as a generalisation). But Ravenclaw is just as much about "eccentric, unorthodox thinking" as it is about "intelligence, knowledge and wit." Which would explain the crackpot members of the house like Luna Lovegood. So maybe that's why it has the fewest members?

Gryffindor, on the other hand, is perceived as the hosue full of stuck-up, arrogant jocks who suffer from a severe case of Honor Before Reason. Said fans of the bookish house would dislike the stereotypical meatheaded-ness of the house, when it's produced several intelligent wizards (Dumbledore, McGonagall, Sirius, Lily Evans, James Potter, Harry Potter, Hermione, to name a few...)

edited 24th May '12 9:35:37 PM by CrazyDawg

I had assumed Hufflepuff was the least popular house. Plenty of people I know like Gryffindor.

Just because someone likes a house doesn't mean that they would be in that house.

Personally, I don't think it's very far out there that fans of reading would go in Gryffindor house because they're the sort of people who fantasize about being heroes, usually through escapist literature, which is exactly the sort of characteristic that would suit a Gryffindor perfectly, so it does sort of make sense that Gryffindor is turning out to be the biggest house.

edited 24th May '12 9:39:18 PM by deathpigeon

I may have been judging this claim based on the sign up thread for the Hogwarts RP. But I know a few people who've disliked Gryffindor, although lots of people also hate Slytherin because it's the "evil house".

And yes, I do see what you mean about the hero fantasies.

edited 24th May '12 9:43:35 PM by CrazyDawg

Lots of people (like me) don't want to be in Gryffindor because it's the expected one, and if they're not bookish/clever, they'd rather be in Hufflepuff than Gryffindor because they want to distinguish themselves from Harry, and Slytherins are evil.

So you're saying that Gryffindor is too mainstream?

There are really only two Houses once one leaves Hogwarts anyway.

House Hufflepuff and House Slytherin.

Given that, I used to think that Ravenclaw would fold into Slytherin and Gryffindor into Hufflepuff, but now I am not so sure. House Gryffindor has too many things in common with House Slytherin to mesh well with the harder workers of Hufflepuff. And House Ravenclaw attracts those who are too smart to end up aligned with the obviously evil Slytherins.

...what?

I became a Ravenclaw, which always has been the only house I could identify myself in, since I neither am brave, willing to break rules, or hard-working.

Btw, am I the only one who got to choose between two houses at the end? I ended up having the choice between Ravenclaw and Slytherin.

I didn't even know that was possible.

I'm a Hufflepuff. I was expecting either there or Ravenclaw.

I think the choice fit me pretty well. I might not be totally hard-working but I can be when I want to, and I am pretty loyal, so.

I have always thought of myself as a Slytherin, and generally get Slytherin on other Sorting quizzes, but for some reason this one put me in Ravenclaw. I'm not unhappy, exactly, but I definitely don't feel like that's the right fit for me. I've run into a bunch of people who were sorted elsewhere who say the same.

Took it again, was sorted into Ravenclaw. Now I feel like I belong.