{"id":1391067,"date":"2016-06-29T11:39:12","date_gmt":"2016-06-29T15:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.sparknotes.com\/?p=1391067"},"modified":"2019-02-11T13:19:05","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T18:19:05","slug":"here-is-what-your-hogwarts-and-ilvermorny-houses-say-about-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/here-is-what-your-hogwarts-and-ilvermorny-houses-say-about-you\/","title":{"rendered":"Here Is What Your Hogwarts and Ilvermorny Houses Say About You"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"https:\/\/img.sparknotes.com\/content\/sparklife\/sparktalk\/ilverwarts_LargeWide.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Like you, the first thing I did yesterday was <a href=\"http:\/\/community.sparknotes.com\/2016\/06\/28\/the-american-wizarding-houses-are-here-along-with-a-brand-new-sorting-test\" target=\"_blank\">get sorted<\/a> into my Ilvermorny house over at Pottermore. It was a frantic three and a half minutes in an unfamiliar user interface, and at the end of it, I had my answer: Pukwudgie.<\/p>\n<p>This naturally meant nothing to me, because we do not yet have the benefit of years of scholarship on the intrinsic meanings of the American wizarding houses. Look, I want to be sorted, but then I want to be <em>personally guided through the myriad halls of my personality<\/em> by none other than JK Rowling herself. Instead, all I \u00a0got was:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>Pukwudgie:<\/strong> represents the heart, favors healers<\/p>\n<p>In any case, I had already been sorted into Ravenclaw, so this <em>additional<\/em> sorting raised \u00a0several questions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How does my existing House relate to my new House?<\/li>\n<li>Is Pukwudgie a fancy way of saying, &#8220;Sorry, but you&#8217;re a Hufflepuff in the New World&#8221;?<\/li>\n<li>WHO AM I????<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I think we should continue to debate these questions, but to help you make sense of this personality bomb, I&#8217;m offering up a Sorting Key, to help you find the Ultimate Truth at the nexus of your Ilvermorny and Hogwarts houses.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"https:\/\/img.sparknotes.com\/content\/sparklife\/sparktalk\/hogwartsilvermornykey.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Please, <em>please<\/em>, join me with bouquets and\/or pitchforks in the comments to discuss, and to share your cross-Pacific sorting (&#8220;Pukwudgclaw&#8221;).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like you, the first thing I did yesterday was get sorted into my Ilvermorny house over at Pottermore. It was a frantic three and a half minutes in an unfamiliar user interface, and at the   <a class=\"continue-reading\" href=\"#\"><span class=\"continue-text\">continue reading<\/span><svg class=\"continue-icon\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" alt=\"\">\n    <path fill=\"#007acd\" fill-rule=\"nonzero\" d=\"M13.442 5.558L19.885 12l-6.443 6.442-.884-.884 4.934-4.934L4 12.625v-1.25l13.492-.001-4.934-4.932.884-.884z\"><\/path>\n  <\/svg><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":208,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,25016],"tags":[32,5287,5164,8878,22521,4859,5286],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1391067"}],"collection":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/208"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1391067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1391067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1391067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1391067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1391067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}