The Problem With Hogwarts Houses

This is just tracking! #shorts #dimension20

[POTUSJimmyCarter]

"Everyone knows there's four types of kids, brave, smart, evil, and miscellaneous."

[WorldofWarcraftfan]

All houses are equal, but some houses are more equal them others.

[lennongrad]

Dude imagine being 11, getting sorted into Slytherin, and then boom everyone thinks your evil

[CivilWarMan]

"Assigning traits to students and then grouping them based on those traits has been proven to be a really ineffective way of educating them."
"Right, so that's one Ravenclaw."

[lucaspoli]

Ah yes, the four houses:
Griffindor, Smart, Yellow and Evil.

[OriginalGazGoose]

This made me realize that if Hogwartz, and the magical world by extention had an effective education system, most of the plot never would've happened

[MonoCrowbo]

The four houses: Punch. Hug. Lie. Think.

[CrimpyPlate]

Considering the sorting system started not one, but TWO wizarding race wars, maybe it could use a couple revisions? If not abolished altogether?

[redactedredacted]

You know, the thing is, the Sorting Hat literally calls bullshit on the whole houses thing in Order of the Phoenix, saying that, with the whole "return of the Dark Lord" thing people should really be sticking together instead of letting themselves be divided by arbitrary rules, but the teachers basically just go "oh, that wacky hat, always with its crackpot theories!" and it's literally never brought up again.

[General_Nothing]

I just realized that he meant “tracking” as in “putting students on a predetermined track, ” and not, “keeping track of students.”

[DolusVulpes]

Fun fact: the VARK model of different learning types (visual, auditory, reading/writing, and kinesthetic) is also this. Multiple studies have been done that prove that regardless of which learning type someone thinks they are or that Vark says they are, they actually all learn about the same amount from the same teaching methods, and that in some cases students being convinced they can only learn a specific way actually damages their ability to learn because they subconsciously pay less attention to teaching methods that don't suit the way they've been told they learn.

[molybdenumrose]

Having the professor get flustered and almost say a slur was fantastic improv on the GM's part

EDIT: In earlier sessions of this campaign, "muggle" is established as a slur in their version of the world. You don't have to keep telling me that she was going to say "muggle".

[Parodox]

Hey guys I'm starting to think there might be issues with Hogwarts' educational practices.

[rotzy]

It wouldn’t be Brennen if he didn’t destroy our childhood with one sentence.

[meliponalord]

Fun fact: The four Hogwarts houses match four categories of characters:
Gryffindor- Main characters
Ravenclaw- Background characters
Hufflepuff- Side characters
Slytherin- Antagonists

J.K. really was just classifying her characters by importance, huh?

Edited due to popular vote, might be subject to future change.

[MetaGiga]

Me at age 11: “I want to be in Slytherin! Green is my favorite color and I love snakes! And their main aspect is ambition, right? I have so much of that it’s crazy!”

Me, in Slytherin at age 18: *”The other houses avoid me because they assume that I’m evil, my only friend is my pet rat, and I developed depression in my first semester of school.”*

[TcheVml]

This campaign was just designed to diss Harry Potter's worldbuilding, huh

[samuelsmith]

I mean I hope we can all agree that Harry Potter has some of the most memorable but also the most bs world building ever

[Karak-_-]

I would say that H. Potter wordbuilding is like a theatre prop.

It looks good enough from distance and the spotligth in at the actors anyway.

But upon a closer inspection it's made of cardboard.

[hariodinio]

I like how there is a weird head movement as she says equal as if the character definitely doesnt believe it