Hogwarts Houses

Students at Hogwarts are grouped into iv houses: Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff, and Slytherin.

When the students arrived on September i of their first year, they were met byMcGonagall, who explained the house system:

"The first-of-term banquet will begin shortly, but before you lot accept your seats in the Great Hall, y'all will be sorted into your houses. The Sorting is a very of import ceremony considering, while you are here, your house will be something like your family unit within Hogwarts. You volition have classes with the rest of your house, slumber in your firm dormitory, and spend free time in your house common room."The 4 houses are called Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, and Slytherin. Each house has its ain noble history and each has produced outstanding witches and wizards. While you are at Hogwarts, your triumphs will earn your house points, while any rulebreaking will lose firm points. At the end of the year, the house with the nearly points is awarded the House Cup, a neat honour. I hope each of you will exist a credit to whichever house becomes yours." (PS7)

The students were and so led into the Great Hall. There they were sorted into their houses by placing the Sorting Hat onto their heads, whereupon information technology decided which house they should sbelong to.

Each firm has a common room and dormitories where students sleep and spend their free time. Students practice their studying and spend their complimentary time in their common room when they aren't in the library. The mutual rooms accept comfortable chairs and assorted tables for students to work at and to play games such as wizard chess orExploding Snap. Each common room also has a large fireplace.

Each house has a Head, a staff fellow member who is responsible for the students in that house. There are likewise several prefects from the houses. Each house also has a residentghost and an animal. The Heads, animals, colors, and ghosts of each house are as follows:

Gryffindor Ravenclaw Hufflepuff Slytherin
Head
 McGonagall Flitwick Sprout Snape
ghost
 Nearly Headless Nick Gray Lady Fatty Friar Bloody Businesswoman
animal lion hawkeye badger serpent
colors red and golden blue and bronze yellow and black green and silver

The crests of each firm evidence their colors and their creature:

Gryffindor Ravenclaw
Slytherin Hufflepuff

The 4 houses compete for House Points. Whichever house gets the most points over the course of the year wins the Firm Loving cup. These points are tracked by means of four huge hourglasses. Each business firm has a Quidditch team. These teams compete through the year as well, and the victor of the Quidditch contests wins the coveted Quidditch Cup.

The four houses are related to the four elements, according to Rowling (Pm): Slytherin is water, Gryffindor is fire, Ravenclaw is air and Hufflepuff is earth.

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Etymology

The Erstwhile English language discussion hūs (noun) is of Germanic origin and means a building for people to live in, usually for 1 family.

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