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i'm gryffindor. but if i change one answer i end up in hufflepuff.

so i'm a gryffinpuff?

hm, good point. i guess i would be a gryffindor then.

because i like the color red.

yah. i'm superficial like that...

Aww he looks so cute like that!
Thanks for sharing this pic with us. whee

I learned from Vinny and did the same thing. here's what I got.
Gryffindor-4
Ravenclaw-2
Hufflepuff-2
Slytherin-0
It's official. I'm a Gryffindor. ^_^

The total lack of character development in Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw kind of make them less appealing choices too... I mean really, you get to know one, maybe two characters from each of those houses and everyone else is either in Gryffindor or is completely two dimensional and evil and is in Slytherin?

Don't get me wrong, I love Harry Potter, but the fact that the people in Slytherin were so archetypal really bothered me. Like really, if everyone in Slytherin, without fail, is an evil bully who is rooting for Voldemort, maybe they should just expel anyone that the hat sorts into that house. She didn't make any Slytherins good or likable or multi-dimensional like real humans are.

Yeah, Slytherin sucks. It would have been nice if someone could have made friends with a Slytherin at one point in the story. You know, like Ginny or somebody (who's a good enough person to befriend someone unpopular like Luna). There were no Slytherin's in Dumbledore's Army even though I'm sure not ALL of the Slytherins liked Umbridge's disgusting personality. Somehow I don't think all of them would enjoy obeying her stupid rules even if Slytherins are huge suck-ups by default.

It seems that since Slytherin has such a bad reputation, all of the kids who would normally be sorted into Slytherin (like Harry) beg the hat to put them in Gryffindor or one of the other houses, while the people who are proud of being stuck up rich dark wizards all go to Slytherin like they want to.

And the "racism" against Slytherin is awful. All of the other houses think poorly of Slytherin for no damn good reason. Imagine those poor first years who get sorted into Slytherin, and then suddenly no one they met on the train wants to be friends with them anymore. So Slytherins can only be friends with other Slytherins, and it gives them an "it's us against them" attitude.

Funnily enough, the adult characters are more 3D when it comes to their houses than the kids are. Wormtail was a Gryffindor and we all know what happened to him. Meanwhile, Slughorn was a Slytherin and while he uses "any means to get his ends", he's a good person at heart. Let's not talk about Snape, who's either a horribly evil person or a hero with a terrible burden.

I agree on some aspects, but then again i disagree. sweatdrop Is it wrong to judge all Slytherins as being evil? Yes. But then again, when was the last time a Slytherin said "Excuse me" in a corridor? And i do like the theory of the first years, but then again, the sorting hat really see's the person you truly are on the inside. Harry was considered to be put in Slytherin, yes, but we also know that the sorting hat likes to speak in riddles. He was considered because of his talents. I personally think the Sorting hat likes to mess with people while he's inside their head, just so they're sure about themselves. So first year slytherins most likely are bad somehow inside, so i wouldn't think that they would be real chatty with other kids on the train.

As for the matter of no slytherin's being in Dumbledore's Army. Of course they may not like Umbridge, but think of what she taught and what the D.A. was really about: Defense against the dark arts. Why a Slytherin would want to learn to defend themselves against something they themselves embrace is beyond me. but yeah, that's my two little cents.