meysuhr's Sorting
I've already submitted one combo of my sorting test answers, but I'd like to submit my answers to all of the questions. Like I shared before, I'm a Ravenclaw and most of the time I'm sorted into this house. In the past (Although, some of my answers have changed since then), I'd sometimes be placed in Hufflepuff and every now and then, Slytherin.
Here we go.
QUESTION 1:
Which of the following would you most hate people to call you? -Selfish (second choice: ignorant) - Puff (ignorant is Claw) After you have died, what would you most like people to do when they hear your name? -Miss you, but smile (second choice: Think with admiration of your achievements) - Puff (achieve is Claw) Given the choice, would you rather invent a potion that would guarantee you: -Wisdom - Claw How would you like to be known to history? -The Wise (second choice: The Good) - Claw (second is Puff)
2 Claw, 2 Puff - and your second choices tend to be Puff/Claw as well!
QUESTION 2:
You enter an enchanted garden. What would you be most curious to examine first? -The statue with the twinkling eye - Gryff, but not a great question - there's huge crossover between the Gryff statue and the Claw tree, to the point where more Gryffs pick the tree and statue led for Ravenclaw for quite a while. The toadstools are Puff.
(The eye is what catches my attention. It's what makes it different from other statues. My second choice: toadstools) What kind of instrument most pleases your ear? -The piano - Claw; your ranking actually mirrors the overall popularity of each instrument. (Rank from favorite to least favorite: Piano, Violin, Drums, Trumpet)
Four boxes are placed before you. Which would you try and open -The gleaming jet black box with a silver lock and key, marked with a mysterious rune that you know to be the mark of Merlin. - Slytherin, with your 2nd choice being Claw, but this again is a terrible question because Ravenclaws pick the Slytherin box more often than their own, because of the temptation bit! (Ravenclaw's box is the only one with an explicit downside and is BY FAR the least-picked of the four.)
(I would like to say the golden box because of the secret knowledge, but I’m not particularly excited about it having unbearable temptation. That can be troublesome.)
Four goblets are placed before you. Which would you choose to drink? -The smooth, thick, richly purple drink that gives off a delicious smell of chocolate and plums. - Puff (It sounds like the safest and most pleasing, the others seem too suspicious.)
Once every century, the Flutterby bush produces flowers that adapt their scent to attract the unwary. If it lured you, it would smell of: -A crackling log fire - Gryff (although your reasoning is fairly Puff) (the log fire would remind me of home on a cold night.)
2 Puff, 1 of each other House
QUESTION 3:
A troll has gone berserk in the Headmaster’s study at Hogwarts. It is about to smash, crush and tear several irreplaceable items and treasures, including a cure for dragon pox, which the Headmaster has nearly perfected; student records going back 1000 years and a mysterious handwritten book full of strange runes, believed to have belonged to Merlin. In which order would you rescue these objects from the troll’s club, if you could? Select order: -Merlin’s Book/Dragon Pox Cure/Student Records (I used to pick Merlin's book/Student Records/Dragon Pox Cure, but then I thought about the importance of the cure and how much work had been put into it.)
Ravenclaw primary, Slytherin secondary; your old answer reversed them. BCR is meant to be Ravenclaw's #1 answer (in practice every House orders Cure/book/records); BRC is meant to be Slytherin's #1.
Which would you rather be: -Liked - Puff, but problematic; this question basically sucks because 75% of people pick trusted/praised/liked. Ravenclaw has no good options (87% of them pick trusted/praised/liked vs. less than 10% picking the 'Claw answers) and Slytherin's not much better. This question's HUGELY skewed to Gryff (trusted/praised) and Puff (trusted/liked.) Which of the following do you find most difficult to deal with? -Cold - Slyth primary, Puff secondary. Least-biased of the questions, though you avoided the bias in the cure order.
So Ravenslyth, Slytherpuff, or Hufflepuff
QUESTION 4:
What are you most looking forward to learning at Hogwarts? -Every area of magic I can - Claw primary, Slyth secondary If you could have any power, which would you choose? -The power of invisibility - Gryff Which of the following would you most like to study? -Ghosts - Gryff primary, Claw secondary, but HUGELY problematic: in practice, this should be Ravenpuff (42% of Claws pick ghosts vs. 27% of Gryffs, and ghosts is #1 in Claw and Puff in practice but barely #2 in Gryff!) Gryff gets weight for the top 3 creatures - ghosts, werewolves, centaurs. Add to that that Slytherin gets 4/5/6 (merpeople, vamps, goblins) and Puff gets trolls, and that Houses tend not to pick the answers they're supposed to (Ravenclaws love werewolves, Puffs ghosts, centaurs is more popular in Gryff than it should be) and you end up with a bad Q4. (Vamps is Slytherpuff, merpeople Slyth.)
(I'd also like vampires and merepeople)
So Ravenslyth, Gryff, or Gryffinclaw
QUESTION 5:
One of your house mates has cheated in a Hogwarts exam by using a Self-Spelling Quill. Now he has come top of the class in Charms, beating you into second place. Professor Flitwick is suspicious of what happened. He draws you to one side after his lesson and asks you whether or not your classmate used a forbidden quill. What do you do? -Tell Professor Flitwick that he ought to ask your classmate (and resolve to tell your classmate that if he doesn’t tell the truth, you will). - Gryff, but the most popular answer by far (each Q5 has one or two REALLY POPULAR ANSWERS - 3 are Gryff, 2 Claw, 1 Puff. All the Slyth answers are not good.) You and two friends need to cross a bridge guarded by a river troll who insists on fighting one of you before he will let all of you pass. Do you: -Attempt to confuse the troll into letting all three of you pass without fighting - Claw, and most popular Which road tempts you most? -The cobbled street lined with ancient buildings - Claw (the woods path is the most popular) (Second: the twisting, leaf-strewn path through the woods) Which nightmare would frighten you most? -Standing on top of something very high and realizing suddenly that there are no hand- or footholds, nor any barrier to stop you falling - Claw, but this nightmare question is seriously screwed up: a majority of Claws pick the Gryffindor eye, while a majority of Slyths pick the Claw heights. (The eye is scary, too)
Late at night, walking alone down the street, you hear a peculiar cry that you believe to have a magical source. Do you: -Withdraw into the shadows to await developments, while mentally reviewing the most appropriate defensive and offensive spells, should trouble occur. - Claw (Puff's "proceed" is #1) A Muggle confronts you and says that they are sure you are a witch or wizard. Do you: -Ask what makes them think so? - Claw (and most popular)
5 Claw, 1 Gryff
QUESTION 6:
Dawn or dusk? -Dawn - Ravendor (I love hearing nature wake up and watching the sunrise.) Moon or stars? -Stars - Huffledor, but this is screwy as well: over 80% of Claws vs. 47% of Gryffs pick stars. (I’m fascinated by constellations and the number of stars there are. I’d love to go out in the ocean on a moonless night and stare at the sky blanketed by stars. A person doesn't normally experience that.) Forest or river? -Forest - Gryffinclaw (You get both food and protection from the forest, as well as a river that flows through.)
So always Gryff, mostly Claw, a bit of Puff
QUESTION 7:
Black or white? -White - Huffleclaw Heads or tails? -Tails - Gryffinslyth Left or right? -Left - Ravenslyth (By default, I would want to say right because I'm right-handed. Although, I basically have equal hemispheric dominance, with a slightly higher dominance in my left brain. the right side is controlled by the left brain.)
So mostly Claw/Slyth, a bit of Puff/Gryff
Overall:
1 - Ravenpuff split
2 - About equally split; 2 Puff vs. 1 of all others
3 - Ravenslyth, Puff, Slytherpuff
4 - Ravenslyth, Gryff, Gryffinclaw
5 - 5 Claw, 1 Gryff
6 - Always Gryff, mostly Claw
7 - Mostly Slyth/Claw split
So I call this Claw 1. In practice, I would say that you'll get Gryffindor the most after Ravenclaw, but I would also say that I'd love to call this Puff 2nd based on your actual answers and reasoning, particularly given some of the bias issues (log fire reminds you of home; log fire is the most popular smell anyway; ghosts ought to be Ravenpuff if going by popularity; stars should be Ravenpuff not Huffledor by the same measure; "confront classmate" is really popular.) Slyth's last but still possible (Merlin's box, cure order or cold, learn everything, stars, tails or left, with a Puff Q1 to avoid driving it Ravenclaw.) So in practice you'll see Claw 1st, Gryff 2nd, Puff 3rd, Slyth last, but I'd rather call you more of a Ravenpuff, given the quiz's innate bias to Gryffindor and some of your reasoning. Slytherin Sortings rather baffle me - you must have been giving the BRC cure ordering and/or vampires or merpeople to get that result more often.
