#potter posting

[pullmycord]

The fact that I've literally never seen a white Harry potter fanart on this site

[lemonprick]

hogwarts houses idea

the houses still exist as is, with their respective colours and mascots and founders. the sorting ceremony still is a thing at the start of year.

BUT

no one actually knows what the different houses stand for. the whole ‘hufflepuffs are kind’ and ‘gryffindors value bravery’ thing doesn’t exist. for all everyone knows, the sorting hat is assigning students at random.

The hat insists there isn’t random, and that students in the same house do in fact have something in common that the others don’t. The houses also aren’t split equally in the same year, although considering forms 1-7 they do tend to even out.

Throughout the school year the students have to figure out what the ‘theme’ for the sorting is for that year. The theme changes every year, but in a way that also applies to the students already in the house (the hat is very meticulous). It becomes quite the tradition in the first week of term for older kids to descend upon unsuspecting first years in the common room and interrogate them. Previous generations of students have left lists of their similarities on notice boards and each new year items are added or crossed out.

themes range from ‘left arm is slightly longer than the right’ to ‘unexplainable distaste towards the texture of okra’ to ‘mother used to share a rom with the parent of someone else in the same house’. it isn’t as catchy as ‘wisdom’ or ‘ambition’, but it gives something for housemates to bond over.