Are you Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Slytherin or Ravenclaw? The Sorting Hat knows.
It can also magically predict a house for a family member or friend.
Now you can be sorted into your Hogwarts House by the Sorting Hat Keyring. This cute gift idea would make any Harry Potter fan happy to receive.
Hogwarts was founded over a thousand years ago by four powerful wizards: Godric Gryffindor, Salazar Slytherin, Rowena Ravenclaw and Helga Hufflepuff. They chose to split the students into four ‘houses’, each bearing their surnames and featuring young wizards and witches who displayed abilities and personalities they wanted to nurture.
To do this, Godric Gryffindor used his magical hat – henceforward known as the Sorting Hat – to decide which children should go into which house, and so it has been ever since with a yearly Sorting Ceremony that places each new pupil into their own new home.
The four houses have different entry requirements, and nobody summed them up better than the old Sorting Hat itself in its welcoming song...
Gryffindor
Notable members include (of course) Harry Potter, Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley.
‘You might belong in Gryffindor,
Where dwell the brave at heart,
Their daring, nerve and chivalry
Set Gryffindors apart.’
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
Hufflepuff
Notable members include Newt Scamander, Cedric Diggory and Nymphadora Tonks.
‘You might belong in Hufflepuff
Where they are just and loyal
Those patient Hufflepuffs are true
And unafraid of toil.’
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
Ravenclaw
Notable members include Luna Lovegood, Gilderoy Lockhart and Filius Flitwick.
‘Or yet in wise old Ravenclaw
If you’ve a ready mind
Where those of wit and learning
Will always find their kind.’
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
Slytherin
Notable members include Severus Snape, Draco Malfoy and (rather unfortunately) Lord Voldemort.
‘Or perhaps in Slytherin
You’ll make your real friends
Those cunning folk use any means
To achieve their ends.’
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone