forum Hogwarts Common Room
Started by @ConstanceAtticus
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@ConstanceAtticus

The first time I got sorted I got gryffindor, then again, then again. I literally never get sorted any other way. It's interesting for me to see somone who's both

@JustAPandaWithALife

Hufflepuffs are hard-working and loyal.
Slytherins are ambitious and determined.
Those traits seem pretty similar. Just because some Hufflepuffs are super-duper kind and some Slytherins are evil and cunning doesn't mean they are two totally different opposites.

@JustAPandaWithALife

(man, you're special! xD I'm personally a Huffledor, more Hufflepuff than Gryffindor. I have never been sorted into Ravenclaw or Slytherin even though I share some of those traits lol)

@ConstanceAtticus

So we're all obviously different from one another. We get sorted differently, we get called differently, and we argue differently. The truth is that we're all different. Just in the way people talk, the way people will stand for some things, it's easy to tell why the way they are is so prevalent. The first thing you did, @Brokenchipmunk, was come into the wrong common room. (It's just an example.) We all behave differently. Like the way my immediate reaction was to find this amusing. But now I have a better question.

Can people actually be sorted into houses? We talk a lot of game about how, and we talk a lot about why stereotypes of each aren't true. But take a step back. Aren't the houses themselves a definition of the human mind? Isn't definition what we struggle against? So why can we be sorted, when we can't be labeled?