Finally, my HP sorting is confirmed
Not too long ago, while I was Googling random Harry Potter questions, I found the Sortinghatchats blog here on Tumblr and was fascinated by their comprehensive breakdown of the houses, the way there were primaries and secondaries and models. For a very long time, I’d considered myself a Slytherin/Ravenclaw hatstall. I did this because I took the Pottermore test three times, each time getting Slytherin. Then, when I found a test that had all of the Pottermore questions that broke the answers down by percentages, with each answer increasing or decreasing the percentage of a particular house, I found that I was sorted into Ravenclaw by a single answer. But still, even though I used the term “hatstall”, it didn’t feel quite right.
Enter the Sortinghatchats blog and quiz (take the quiz here https://ejadelomax.itch.io/sortinghatchats you won’t regret it).
I read up on all of the primaries, secondaries, models, performances, and burning, read about various character sortings, and then dove into the quiz. I got Snake Primary, Bird Secondary, with a tentative Lion primary model. My sorting was validated, even if there was the very surprising Lion in there. And the best thing about all of it is that the blog made the sorting make more sense.
I’m not a Snake primary just because I’m ambitious or cunning, as those aren’t my most defining traits. I’m a Snake primary because my morals come from within and I’m loyal to the people I choose to be loyal to. I’m a Snake primary because those morals go out the window when someone hurts me and mine, and the only reason I don’t act on my more vicious impulses is my multifaceted fear of prison. I’m a Snake primary, and possibly a lion model, because my family has explicitly told me to stay away from people who have hurt me and mine because they know my wrath will get me in trouble if I’m not careful, because it’s gotten me in trouble before. I’m a Snake primary because I have empathy for the suffering in the world, but I know there’s not much I can do about it, and while I feel bad for not being able to do more, I don’t feel too bad about not overextending myself when I need to save my energy to keep my own head above water.
I’m a Bird secondary because I research eeeeeeverything, get stuck on certain topics for long periods of time, and love a plan. Why do I know the origin of the F-word or that Stalin had a cannibal island? Because I can. Why do spreadsheets make me happy? Because they’re orderly. I can improvise if a plan goes south, but I don’t like to, and I’ll stumble over myself while my brain cobbles together a new track to take.
It was really cool to have this sorting quiz validate my “hatstall” idea about myself with way better terminology. Now to find more Snake/Birds in media that I actually like more than the Lion/Badgers (such a difficult process).
