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Title: Pottermore, baby.
Post by: brenden on March 09, 2013, 06:43:48 pm
I am currently on a furious quest through the first book on Pottermore so I may be sorted. A bunch of Year 12 girls that I tutor at my school (for free, I'm not tutoring, just preemptively) were all sorted into Slytherin.
No, I didn't end the friendship. They did tell me, however, that I would be sorted into Ravenclaw, to which I vehemently disagreed with. I personally think I'm either a Hufflepuff or a Gryffindor, so I'm going to find out.
I just got my wand -> "Elder with unicorn core, fourteen and a half inches, unyielding". I did have to hold back laughter.
SO EVERYONE GO DO POTTERMORE AND DISCUSS THINGS WITH ME JAJAJA.


Also, what are your favourite houses? Mine would be Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, Slytherin. In that order.
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Post by: michak on March 09, 2013, 06:45:19 pm
YAY!!!! I love pottermore.
Its so good and surpirsing that its free.

Im in Ravenclaw :)
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Post by: brenden on March 09, 2013, 06:47:31 pm
Yeah it's actually incredibly detailed.
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Post by: brenden on March 09, 2013, 06:48:17 pm
I'm going to crack it if I'm in RC or Slytherin.
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Post by: michak on March 09, 2013, 07:08:45 pm
I'm going to crack it if I'm in RC or Slytherin.

lol just make another account
Im eagerly awaiting the next part to be released
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Post by: brenden on March 09, 2013, 07:11:46 pm
Hufflepuff! :D
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Now, there are a few things you should know about Hufflepuff house. First of all, let’s deal with a perennial myth about the place, which is that we’re the least clever house. WRONG. Hufflepuff is certainly the least boastful house, but we’ve produced just as many brilliant witches and wizards as any other. Want proof? Look up Grogan Stump, one of the most popular Ministers for Magic of all time. He was a Hufflepuff – as were the successful Ministers Artemesia Lufkin and Dugald McPhail. Then there’s the world authority on magical creatures, Newt Scamander; Bridget Wenlock, the famous thirteenth-century Arithmancer who first discovered the magical properties of the number seven, and Hengist of Woodcroft, who founded the all-wizarding village of Hogsmeade, which lies very near Hogwarts School. Hufflepuffs all.

So, as you can see, we’ve produced more than our fair share of powerful, brilliant and daring witches and wizards, but, just because we don’t shout about it, we don’t get the credit we deserve. Ravenclaws, in particular, assume that any outstanding achiever must have come from their house. I got into big trouble during my third year for duelling a Ravenclaw prefect who insisted that Bridget Wenlock had come from his house, not mine. I should have got a week of detentions, but Professor Sprout let me off with a warning and a box of coconut ice.

Hufflepuffs are trustworthy and loyal. We don’t shoot our mouths off, but cross us at your peril; like our emblem, the badger, we will protect ourselves, our friends and our families against all-comers. Nobody intimidates us.

However, it’s true that Hufflepuff is a bit lacking in one area. We’ve produced the fewest Dark wizards of any house in this school. Of course, you’d expect Slytherin to churn out evil-doers, seeing as they’ve never heard of fair play and prefer cheating over hard work any day, but even Gryffindor (the house we get on best with) has produced a few dodgy characters.

What else do you need to know? Oh yes, the entrance to the common room is concealed in a stack of large barrels in a nook on the right hand side of the kitchen corridor. Tap the barrel two from the bottom, middle of the second row, in the rhythm of ‘Helga Hufflepuff’, and the lid will swing open. We are the only house at Hogwarts that also has a repelling device for would-be intruders. If the wrong lid is tapped, or if the rhythm of the tapping is wrong, the illegal entrant is doused in vinegar.

You will hear other houses boast of their security arrangements, but it so happens that in more than a thousand years, the Hufflepuff common room and dormitories have never been seen by outsiders. Like badgers, we know exactly how to lie low – and how to defend ourselves.

Once you’ve opened the barrel, crawl inside and along the passageway behind it, and you will emerge into the cosiest common room of them all. It is round and earthy and low-ceilinged; it always feels sunny, and its circular windows have a view of rippling grass and dandelions.

There is a lot of burnished copper about the place, and many plants, which either hang from the ceiling or sit on the windowsills. Our Head of house, Professor Pomona Sprout, is Head of Herbology, and she brings the most interesting specimens (some of which dance and talk) to decorate our room – one reason why Hufflepuffs are often very good at Herbology. Our overstuffed sofas and chairs are upholstered in yellow and black, and our dormitories are reached through round doors in the walls of the common room. Copper lamps cast a warm light over our four-posters, all of which are covered in patchwork quilts, and copper bed warmers hang on the walls, should you have cold feet.

Our house ghost is the friendliest of them all: the Fat Friar. You’ll recognise him easily enough; he’s plump and wears monk’s robes, and he’s very helpful if you get lost or are in any kind of trouble.

I think that’s nearly everything. I must say, I hope some of you are good Quidditch players. Hufflepuff hasn’t done as well as I’d like in the Quidditch tournament lately.

You should sleep comfortably. We’re protected from storms and wind down in our dormitories; we never have the disturbed nights those in the towers sometimes experience.

And once again: congratulations on becoming a member of the friendliest, most decent and most tenacious house of them all.
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Post by: Jeggz on March 09, 2013, 07:31:13 pm
The hottest man to ever have walked in the Harry Potter series, was in Hufflepuff  ;)
So congrats Brenden!
No judgement guys.
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Post by: Limista on March 09, 2013, 07:31:31 pm
@ Brenden: why do you dislike Ravenclaw?

I'm actually pretty fond of that house...  :P
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Post by: brenden on March 09, 2013, 07:45:50 pm
I don't dislike Ravenclaw, I would just not want to be sorted as one. Being chivalrous, courageous, patient, kind, unafraid of toil etc etc doesn't disqualify you from intelligence. I guess I'd just be very frustrated to be identified as 'smart' rather than the values of Gryffindor or Hufflepuff.

From the Harry Potter wiki, Hufflepuff's traits are: dedication, hard work, fair play, patience kindness, tolerance, unafraid of toil.
I don't mind Ravenclaw, I just don't think I am one hahaha.
Title: Re: Pottermore, baby.
Post by: pi on March 09, 2013, 10:37:00 pm
The user "Holmes" should have a lot to say in this thread :P

btw I gave up on Pottermore after a week or so after I realised how addicted I could get :(
Title: Re: Pottermore, baby.
Post by: RTandon on March 10, 2013, 07:32:21 pm
I'm in Slytherin.
At first I was so disappointed but now I realise that I actually belong there. I have a lot of the Slytherin qualities it turns out :P

I was really proud when I managed to solve Snape's puzzle in book one without any help. Wooo.
Title: Re: Pottermore, baby.
Post by: simba on March 10, 2013, 09:56:50 pm
Griffindorian here on Pottermore ;D
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Post by: alondouek on March 10, 2013, 10:24:21 pm
Gryffindor what up
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Post by: brenden on March 11, 2013, 03:02:55 am
I won't lie, I was hoping for Gryffindor, but I think after reading the qualities of each house on the HP wiki, Hufflepuff has to be my favourite.
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Post by: ShortBlackChick on March 11, 2013, 09:26:26 pm
Stayed away from Pottermore thus far coz I know I would get addicted, but this thread made me sign up coz I want to know what house I'm in. And I also needed a place to safe-keep my username ahaha (WildWillow22819)
Title: Re: Pottermore, baby.
Post by: brenden on March 11, 2013, 10:26:16 pm
Hahaha the usernames are the most annoying!
Chapter 7 is the sorting, Kaz.
Title: Re: Pottermore, baby.
Post by: Holmes on March 16, 2013, 07:09:13 pm
The user "Holmes" should have a lot to say in this thread :P

btw I gave up on Pottermore after a week or so after I realised how addicted I could get :(


Yes, I do have far too much to say on this topic. As my signature hopefully says, I'm in Ravenclaw. It's kinda strange to me when people's main exposure to Harry Potter is only through the books by JK Rowling (where else would it be from?, I hear you ask), and you just want to be a brave, courageous and loyal lion, but you wouldn't mind being sorted into Ravenclaw because you're obviously smart, and at a stretch maybe Hufflepuff (though I don't know why), but please NOT SLYTHERIN, NOT SLYTHERIN.

But after having read a couple of million words + of HP fanfiction on fanfic.net, you will understand that there is far more to Harry Potter than the books by Jo. I've read the equivalent of three times the HP series of books in fanfic (~ 3 million words so far). I think that fanfic.net is an integral part of Harry Potter culture, where you get some highly talented people from the public putting in their time to make brilliant works of writing from which they make no money, even though some of their writing is so good that without any copyright on Harry Potter the writers would probably make a pile of  money from their stories.  One of the most reviewed books on fanfic.net is one that is 500,000 words + and still going, and is highly addicting, and I've included a link to a highly comedic and brilliant chapter 5 from Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality (be warned, you may find yourself living on coffee for a few days as you struggle to finish this fanfic, forsaking all sleep and hygiene) , so i've hidden the link as a spoiler:
Spoiler
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5782108/5/Harry-Potter-and-the-Methods-of-Rationality
(actually, I only like the first 20 or so chapters of this fanfic, it gets kinda tedious and stops becoming a fanfic because it just flies away from any connections with the original canon and the writer goes a bit overboard with his incredibly complicated plot).

So, I obviously am so embroiled in the world of Harry Potter that I just went on a complete tangent to what this post was actually about, so I'll try to establish a tenuous link. *As I completely intended to eventually say*, after reading so much fanfic your perception kinda changes of the house system. It all becomes like school houses; they're not sorted based on personality traits (ah, how I wish that we could have as strong a house rivalry at our school as between Gryfindor and Slytherin, the houses are kinda randomised or based on sporting talents pre-yr 9 which kinda change during your life at school, so we become a randomly assigned clan who all love eachother on Athletics Carnival or Chorales day). Especially for most of people who use pottermore, that's to say, most of the muggles who use it, the house segregation on pottermore is no where near as influencing on your life as in the books themselves, but in defence of this statement, I shall say that when Ravenclaw fails to win the house cup on pottermore, it's because the muggles were too busy studying in real life to earn points in the virtual world of Harry Potter.

But yeah, moving on to pottermore, it's really really amazing, I was and still am captivated by it. Have you users come across the official pottermore insider blog (http://insider.pottermore.com/)?, they post updates and it's pretty exciting most of the time. [pre-PS: Pi, I encourage you to visit pottermore again! I think it'll be an even more amazing site within a few years as it technologically develops]. Also, the art that users submit on pottermore is amazing, I actually had no idea of the brilliantly talented artists out there until the insider blog started posting artwork, and alongside my contact with atarnotes, I began to get a sense of the sheer amount of talent in the world. It actually made me realise that everyone is talented, and amazing, and you just don't always realise it until you do.

And that's only some of what Harry Potter means to me.
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Post by: Jeggz on March 16, 2013, 09:19:55 pm
^ WOW!
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Post by: brenden on March 24, 2013, 02:30:00 pm
Kazdawg, didja get sorted? (Chapter 7 son)
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Post by: aishuwa1995 on March 26, 2013, 09:24:57 pm
OMG! OMG! OMG! Pottermore! I haven't been on in ages!! Are all the books up now? I got a choice between Gryffindor and Ravenclaw and I chose Ravenclaw mainly because I don't see myself as brave ???
Title: Re: Pottermore, baby.
Post by: Holmes on March 26, 2013, 09:32:26 pm
OMG! OMG! OMG! Pottermore! I haven't been on in ages!! Are all the books up now?

No, of course the books aren't all up yet! They're still midway through book 3. I think this is good though, because in about 5 years when book 7 will be coming out, I'm guessing that the site is gonna be mega awesome and super technologically developed.

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I got a choice between Gryffindor and Ravenclaw and I chose Ravenclaw mainly because I don't see myself as brave ???
What do you mean you got a choice? You're not presented with two options of houses, the omniscient hat chooses and you are resigned to your the house of your destiny without any choice in the matter. And you think you're not brave, eh? It's all here in your head. You could do great things, yes, great things. And braveness will help you to achieve greatness. Not Gryffindor then? Well, AtarNotes will certainly appreciate another intelligent person. BETTER BE RAVENCLAW!
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Post by: brenden on March 27, 2013, 12:57:22 am
Holy shit I just saw your massive post. I like this guy ^

P.S, help me out here, I've been trying to remember the name - the fanfic that has millions of readers, and involves Merlin (It's centred around the James Potter (the 2nd) universe)... At one point in the story James duels Slytherin because he travels back in time... I could probably find it on Google but ATAR Notes may as well be the same thing.
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Post by: aishuwa1995 on March 27, 2013, 05:02:07 pm
What do you mean you got a choice? You're not presented with two options of houses, the omniscient hat chooses and you are resigned to your the house of your destiny without any choice in the matter.

yeah, I got a choice on my last question in the quiz..I can't remember what exactly it said (cos I joined a long time ago :-/) The thing is though..I'm not smart enough to be in Ravenclaw either :-\

And you think you're not brave, eh? It's all here in your head. You could do great things, yes, great things. And braveness will help you to achieve greatness. Not Gryffindor then? Well, AtarNotes will certainly appreciate another intelligent person. BETTER BE RAVENCLAW!

love what you did here :P :)
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Post by: Holmes on March 27, 2013, 05:35:15 pm
Holy shit I just saw your massive post. I like this guy ^
:P Thank you, and you're too nice! Anyway, you marked my language analysis a few weeks ago, and I like you too!

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P.S, help me out here, I've been trying to remember the name - the fanfic that has millions of readers, and involves Merlin (It's centred around the James Potter (the 2nd) universe)... At one point in the story James duels Slytherin because he travels back in time... I could probably find it on Google but ATAR Notes may as well be the same thing.

I'm really sorry but I'm not familiar with that fic. It seems like a crossover, and quite surprisingly, the only crossovers I've read are between Sherlock Holmes and Harry Potter :P Although, there was an incredibly interesting fanfic I read which mixes Dungeons and Dragons with Harry Potter, it's pretty cool. Now I've added dungeons and dragons to the list of things I wanna learn.
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Post by: brenden on March 27, 2013, 09:00:34 pm
Nah it's not a crossover. Seriously you can't call yourself a fan of fanfic if you haven't read this series... I'll google it.

Edit: http://www.jamespotterseries.com

Probably shouldn't have given you that until school's over.
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Post by: Holmes on March 27, 2013, 09:33:53 pm
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Seriously you can't call yourself a fan of fanfic if you haven't read this series

Seriously you can't call yourself a fan of fanfic if you haven't read this series
you can't call yourself a fan

One word.

Siriusly?
Title: Re: Pottermore, baby.
Post by: brenden on March 27, 2013, 09:37:39 pm
It is legit the most read fanfic of Harry Potter. It has a bloody website!
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Post by: Holmes on March 27, 2013, 09:42:19 pm
Yeah, it actually seems pretty intricate. But then again, HPMOR has its own site as well. It's an easier site to navigate: http://hpmor.com/