The hogwarts houses an unofficial study:
recently I made my friends take the pottermore quiz, They all had vastly different results and I wanted to share my theory on how they solved the quiz and what it says about the decisionmaking proces of each house.
The gryffindor lets their emotions guide them when making a decision. They have the opposite decision making proces to a slytherin. They are at times hard to predict for this reason. They are usually the fastest to solve the quiz because they trust their gut and have a lot of faith in themselves. This results in going with their first instinct when making a decision. They are incredibly curious, they go with which answer at first attracts them and can be impulsive. When a challenge is presented, they HAVE to meet it.
F.ex. A gryffindor will choose the unassuming box with “I only open for the worthy’, because it sparks their curiosity immediately and challenges them.
A slytherin takes emotion out of every decision. They will make an extremely logical and calculated response. They are focused on the immediate question without thinking too far ahead about the consequences of that action. Not because they are bad people but because their emotions don’t come in play when they think of the possible outcome. (Doesn’t mean they won’t have them, but they usually won’t weigh them in when making a decision).
F.ex. often a slytherin will choose the power to read minds, which is one of the hardest powers to bear, because of the mental torment of knowing what people you love think about you at all times. They won’t take how they feel into account, they won’t think of it when making the decision.
Slytherins are opposite to gryffindors in the sense that they often won’t think of the danger they are getting themselves into when they choose a certain path, while Gryffindors are brave exactly because they see the danger, but will choose to face it (if not always for selfless reasons). A Gryffindor will run towards danger, a Slytherin will wait for danger to come to them without blinking, because they are not easily scared.
When hufflepufs solve the quiz their line of thinking goes: ‘how will my answer affect other people in this scenario?’ or ‘how will I feel about myself in a year when I look back on this decision’.
Their decisionmaking is very practical and grounded in the real - life consequences. Hufflepufs won’t go for the easy out, they think it through from as many possible viewpoints, to make sure their decision won’t unfairly disadvantage or hurt someone else. They are the house that carries the most guilt, because their line of thinking shows them everyone that will be hurt over their actions, even in the most insignificant way. This is a heavy weight on a person so they are the most cautious house, not because they are scared for themselves, but because they are scared for others.
F. ex. A hufflepuf will choose the box with a squeaking creature inside, because it might suffocate, die or suffer if it stays in the box. This is the outcome that will come to mind, not “which box sounds coolest”.
A ravenclaw thinks outside of the box. The box isnt even there for them. They have come up with a possible outcome of the decision that wouldn’t have crossed your mind in a million years.
They will always choose mystery because they can imagine a million amazing things to be contained within a mysterious item. They wont go for the ‘Sure thing’ because they are too enticed by ‘possibility’. They aren’t bound by the limits that other houses have regarding imagination, they aren’t bound by the same reality. Their reality is more broad and they see more possibilities.
F.ex. They will save a mysterious book of runes instead of a nearly perfected cure for dragonpox for that exact reason.
It was interesting to see how the houses are each others opposites:
Slytherin: logical decisionmaking
Gryffindor: emotional decisionmaking.
Hufflepuf: grounded in reality making decisions.
Ravenclaw: imaginative, boundless decisionmaking.
But the Houses that are opposite also have something crucial in common:
both gryffindor and slytherin both seem more short term minded in their decisions and more egocentric, thinking: “how would this affect me/my loved ones right now”.
Hufflepuf and Ravenclaw are both focused on the long term consequence of their actions and the bigger picture: “what will be the consequences in the far of future for everyone”.
As a final remark i would like to point out that this was just for fun, and it is perfectly possible that you are a member of a house without falling into these boxes I have sketched out. And you don’t have to be! I just hope some of you recognized yourselves, and for those that didn’t: I hope you’re happy too and just had fun reading this and disagreeing.
And with that last part I have proven what a huge hufflepuf I am so… *shrug*
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