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[emmaraikou]

Which House? Harry Potter Helps Sort Presidential Field
August 24, 2011|By CYRUS DUFF, The Hartford Courant

When sorting out potential presidential candidates, voters tend to divide the contenders according to their political positions and then - perhaps as or more important - by a gut instinct about their characters and less tangible personal

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[headcaseheidi]

has a calculating Ravenclaw side that's caused reporters and voters alike to call him fake

guuuurl

is shot through with his Christian-extreme policies and the corporate politics he's been playing in Texas, putting him solidly in the Ravenclaw

GUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUURRRRRRRRRLLLLLLLLLL

[eveofrevolution]

[coyotesuspect]

is shot through with his Christian-extreme policies and the corporate politics he's been playing in Texas, putting him solidly in the Ravenclaw

Because my first thought when I hear Christian-extreme policies is Ravenclaw!

Ugh. Gryffindor is my forever house, but this ANYONE I LIKE AND WHO IS GOOD IS GRYFFINDOR shit is basic as fuck.

[wingsunfurled]

ANYONE I LIKE AND WHO IS GOOD IS GRYFFINDOR shit is basic as fuck.

I completely agree! I denied for years that I was a Gryffindor even if deep down I knew that was the house I most identified with because most people would only look at the houses at face value as presented by the books. I also identify quite srongly with Slytherin so I adopted that as my house. Since Pottermore I have come to accept that I am a Gryffindor but I get endlessly irritated when I see people saying they are Gryffindors just because it is the 'good' house which is utter bullshit. One ~ We hade Peter Pettigrew in our house who did some so heinous as to betray his friend and bring about their murder and the potential murder of their infant, but people seem to gloss over that. Two ~ The book is written from a Gryffindor's biased views. Of course it is going to seem like the best house in his eyes not to mention most of the people closest to him are also Gryffindor's and share the same bias for their house.

[dyl_obrien]

Barack Obama, on the other hand, is a consummate Gryffindor. He comes across in interviews and speeches as someone who's truly kind and angry about the country's woes, though it's clear he doesn't recklessly allow this anger to cloud his decisions.

Of course, gryffindors are not reckless at all

[headcaseheidi]

lol he keeps describing obama as a ravenclaw but still put him in gryffindor

smh

[dyl_obrien]

ia, it's so cliché

[whatisurdamage]

well I'm totally a Ravenclaw but I was put in Gryff so.. what can ya do?

lol

[szaleniec1000]

Because when I think of those of wit and learning, I think of fundies.

[headcaseheidi]

Cyrus Duff, 15, of West Hartford is entering his sophomore year at Watkinson School.

suddenly it makes more sense

not that i'm excusing this stupid article bf of his age, but at least this wasn't written by someone in their 40s or st, lol

[meggannn]

Seriously, I probably could've written something better than this when I was fifteen. (Then again, fifteen wasn't too long ago for me so maybe I'm kidding myself.)