# Harry Potter and the Straight Dope Message Boards OR . . . **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 9, 2000, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harry-potter-and-the-straight-dope-message-boards-or/25052 "2000-07-09T20:57:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![TelcontarStorm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3ab097/32.png) [@TelcontarStorm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TelcontarStorm)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2003, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harry-potter-and-the-straight-dope-message-boards-or/25052/41 "2003-03-14T14:28:17Z")
I’d have to go to Hufflepuff. A good heart and buzy hands are all I have going for me. Yea, I’d suck at quiddich. But I’d be a damn good cheerleader. ---
**Author:** ![doc\_miller](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f05b48/32.png) [@doc\_miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doc_miller)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2003, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harry-potter-and-the-straight-dope-message-boards-or/25052/42 "2003-03-14T15:35:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by **Ceejaytee** on 11 JUL 2000 \* > \*\*On page 209 of Harry Potter IV…at this rate, I’ll finish this book by Friday. Then I have to wait _a whole damn year!_(emphasis mine) \ \*\* Just got a chuckle out of that 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Lao\_Tsu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e79b87/32.png) [@Lao\_Tsu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lao_Tsu)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2003, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harry-potter-and-the-straight-dope-message-boards-or/25052/43 "2003-03-14T16:46:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by a35362 \* > \*\* > I like the way the books are a kind of parody of the British class system. Magic society is run by Griffindors and Slytherins, it seems, constantly duking it out. \*\* I have to agree, I see Slytherin house more as elitist bastards, some of whom are eviiil… vs. everyone in the house is evil. That said, either Slytherin or Ravenclaw. I’ll happily leave it up to the hat. ---
**Author:** ![Natroga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/85f322/32.png) [@Natroga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Natroga)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2003, 11:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harry-potter-and-the-straight-dope-message-boards-or/25052/44 "2003-03-15T23:31:44Z")
Well, according to the test on the official homepage, I’m a Slytherin. My older sister is a Gryffindor. Take a guess which one is the black sheep in the family… The site that **a35362** places me in Ravenclaw, which is even more appropriate ---
**Author:** ![JessEnigma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/cdc98d/32.png) [@JessEnigma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JessEnigma)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2003, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harry-potter-and-the-straight-dope-message-boards-or/25052/45 "2003-03-16T05:38:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by El Elvis Rojo \* > \*\*We all made fun of him. He retook the test two more times in order to get classified as a Gryffindor, but we still just called him Hufflepuf for a week or so. Pretty lame for college students, huh? \*\* Ha, in my French class last year, we read the 1st book. We finished up shortly before the movie came out, so conveniently enough, there was the sorting hat on the official website and everyone sorted themselves. The usual distribution of houses appeared (I personally was Slytherin), but…nobody got Hufflepuff. In fact, it took a good 10 minutes of manipulating answers to get a fictional persona sorted in there. We really wanted to hear the badger noise. Shortly after this, pieces of fanart appeared in the classroom, along with a successful field trip to see the movie in the nice theater the next town over, so I think, perhaps, we were much lamer. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Homer\_J](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c37758/32.png) [@Homer\_J](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Homer_J)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2003, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harry-potter-and-the-straight-dope-message-boards-or/25052/46 "2003-03-16T13:19:40Z")
On a slighlty different not; after seeing the second movie in which Harry, Ron and Hermonie save the day, again, and everyone claps Hagrid (whose that massive, weird janitor guy were clapping?) I have to say if I were at Hogworts I would probably bully HP as he is a total suck-up. Oi specky!, he’d be so annoying and represents everything that are the usual object of bullys affections (oxymoron!) Disclaimer; I am not a bully, and have no predujdice against people who wear glasses. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/harry-potter-and-the-straight-dope-message-boards-or/25052.md?page=2)