{"id":1392202,"date":"2016-10-04T10:27:01","date_gmt":"2016-10-04T14:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/community.sparknotes.com\/?p=1392202"},"modified":"2016-10-04T10:27:01","modified_gmt":"2016-10-04T14:27:01","slug":"what-its-like-to-get-sorted-into-a-school-house-irl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/blog\/what-its-like-to-get-sorted-into-a-school-house-irl\/","title":{"rendered":"What It’s Like to Get Sorted Into a School House IRL"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"So, you’ve imagined entering the Great Hall, having the sorting hat dropped onto your head, and your house announced to peals of applause. What’s it like getting sorted into a house in real life? Those who are lucky enough to have attended a tony old British boarding school, or a private (“prep”) school with aspirations toward grandiosity, know allll about it. <\/em><\/p>\n

(Want to get sorted? Take our Sorting Test<\/a>.)
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That Ron, Harry, and Hermione are all in Gryffindor tells you three \u00a0things:<\/p>\n

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  1. JK Rowling didn’t want to write pages and pages of exposition on how they got from one common room to another (also partly why she invented the Marauder’s Map).<\/li>\n
  2. Couples \u00a0who house together, stay together (0\/10 simulations show \u00a0Ron and Hem getting together if they were in different houses).<\/li>\n
  3. Some houses are better than others. (Sorry.)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n