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I'm sick of people giving you softball questions. It's time to answer a real, hard-hitting question. Would you rather fight 1 Tabak-sized Rosewater or 10 Rosewater-sized Tabaks?

1 Tabak-Sized Rosewater, easily.

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Which color(s) of people are most likely to get sorted into each of the four Hogwarts houses?

Assuming Hogwarts recruitment is mostly from the United Kingdom, they’re mostly white. According to 2011 census statistics, 87.17% of all UKers are White, 4.87% are from the general Indian subcontinent area, 3.01% are Black, 2.05% are of other Asian origin, 1.98% identify as mixed race, and “other” takes up a whopping 0.92% (A look at this map leads me to believe that Brazilians make up a large chunk of that 0.92%.)

Except we know that Hogwarts also recruits from Ireland. Thankfully, Ireland makes the math really easy for us, as 94.3% of its population identifies as White. 1.9% identify as Asian and 1.4% identify as Black. Ireland only has a population of 4.6 million people, however. It’s dwarfed by the UK’s 63 million people. To put this in perspective, the 3.01% of the UK’s population that identify as Black are almost half the size of the entirety of Ireland. Statistically, that means that teeny tiny parts of Ireland that don’t identify as White don’t change out statistics much.

So finding out how many students are enrolled at Hogwarts was a bit of an adventure. An early interview with Rowling had her stating that it was around 1000, but this article and Rowling’s later admissions (ha!) put the number between 300 and 600. We’ll be generous and err towards Rowling’s estimate and say that there are 600 students at Hogwarts.

Four houses (Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, and Slytherin, for those that did not have childhoods) means that there are about 150 students in each house. Why they need an entire castle baffles me. So now we can get mathy, basically ignoring Ireland entirely because even its White population doesn’t change the UK’s percentage of White people by an integer.

So assuming that ethnic diversity at Hogwarts is consistent with the rest of the UK, we get these numbers:

523 witches and wizards who identify as White

29 witches and wizards who identify as Indian/Pakistani

18 witches and wizards who identify as Black

12 witches and wizards who identify as East Asian

12 witches and wizards who identify as mixed race

6 witches and wizards that are probably of Brazilian descent

Of course, this doesn’t answer any questions about color, does it? After all, not all people who identify as Black are the darkest skin tone possible. Neither are all White people super-pale. This is where things get tricky.

Above is a map that shows the basic skin tones of people around the world. Unsurprisingly, skin tone correlates pretty well with latitude. Those nearer the equator have higher concentrations of melanin in their skin, a protein that absorbs sunlight. As you move away from the equator, which means less direct sunlight, skin tones contain less melanin.

It’s seemingly impossible to find any kind of demographic information on skin tones within populations that identify as a single ethnicity. As such, my answer kind of stalls here without me making big assumptions that are not rooted in statistical facts. But I’m OK with that if you are. So here’s what we’re going to do: We’ll rank general populations by three longitudinal marks from the above map: 0 degrees, 30 degrees, and 65 degrees (basically dark, medium, and light skinned).

Methodology? Well, we can split the Indian/Pakistani group in half, as that region tend to include both the 0 degree and 30 degree tones. Despite being on the equator, Brazil’s tones match up closer to the 30 degree tones. We will also assume mixed race peoples are in the middle group. Students that identify as White will be placed almost all be placed in the 65 degree group, as they are overwhelmingly of British, Irish, and Scottish descent. With that together, we get this:

32 witches and wizards with darker skin tones

45 witches and wizards with medium skin tones

523 witches and wizards with light skin tones

And there you have it. Rough estimates of the colors of students enrolled at Hogwarts. I know you were basically asking where each house falls on the color pie. I did not answer that.

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You know what I fucking love about this whole Alesha deal? We were introduced to her as a woman. We, as a fandom as a whole, were introduced to Alesha as a female before being told she was trans. To my knowledge, until the most recent article featuring Alesha, even the most hardened douche was referring to Alesha as “she/her”. This way, if someone starts misgendering her, you know they’re an asshole.

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