Today, The Morgans have continued visiting Hogwarts guided by Professor Albus Dumbledore,its Headmaster and ProfessorRubeus Hagrid,its Guard.
They have been talking about its four Houses, their history, members, values and rooms. It has been an amazing interesting day.
Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry is divided into four houses: Gryffindor, founded by GodricGryffindor; Hufflepuff, founded by HelgaHufflepuff; Ravenclaw, founded by RowenaRavenclaw; and Slytherin, founded by Salazar Slytherin.
Before the visit, the family has been practising some A2Cambridge Tests.
Ravenclaw is one of the four Houses of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Its founder was the medieval witch Rowena Ravenclaw.
Members of this house are characterised by their wit, learning, and wisdom. Ravenclaw
House prizes learning, wisdom, wit, and intellect in its members. Thus,
many Ravenclaws tend to be academically motivated and talented
students. They also pride themselves on being original in their ideas,
and methods. It's not unusual to find Ravenclaw students practising especially different types of magic that other houses might shun. Ravenclaws tend to be curious about the world and pay attention to the world around them. Ravenclaws are known to be logical and rational.
Ravenclaw
corresponds roughly to the element of air, and it is for that reason
that the House colours were chosen; blue and bronze represent the sky
and eagle feathers respectively, both having much to do with air. The Ravenclaw points hourglass contains blue sapphires.
The emblematic animal symbol is an eagle, andblue and bronze are its colours.
Ravenclaw
House appears to have little rivalry with the other houses, except in
Quidditch. Harry Potter believed that they tended to side with
Gryffindor in its rivalry with Slytherin, as did Hufflepuff house.
The Ravenclaw
common room is in one of the castle's towers and is wide and circular.
You have to climb a tight spiral staircase to get there. It has graceful
arched windows, and the walls are hung with blue and bronze silks. The
domed ceiling is painted with stars, which are echoed in the
midnight-blue carpet. Tables, chairs, and bookcases cover the expanse of
the floor, and a white marble statue of Rowena Ravenclaw sits
next to the door that leads to the dormitories above. Harry Potter
entered the common room in 1998 while searching for clues to the
location of one of Voldemort's Horcruxes. Unlike the other common rooms
in the school, a logical riddle given by a bronze eagle-shaped knocker
must be answered to enter.
The Head of Ravenclaw is Filius Flitwick and the house ghost is the Grey Lady, otherwise known as the daughter of Rowena Ravenclaw, HelenaRavenclaw.
Today, The Fosters and TheGrandma have found and destroyed Ravenclaw'sDiadem, another Horcrux.
With this, they have already destroyed five of a total of seven. They continued helping HarryPotter, Hermione Granger and RonWeasley in their search.
Ravenclaw's Diadem is the only known relic once belonging to RowenaRavenclaw, the founder of RavenclawHouse and her most treasured attribute.
Ravenclaw's Diadem, also known as the Lost Diadem of Ravenclaw, was the only known relic once belonging to Rowena Ravenclaw, the founder of Ravenclaw House at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Etched upon its surface was Ravenclaw's famous quote: Wit beyond measure is man's greatest treasure.
It was said to enhance the wisdom of its wearer, which is Ravenclaw House's most treasured attribute. It had a blue sapphire shaped like an oval. The diadem was later stolen by her daughter, Helena, a fact Rowena kept a secret from the other founders 'till her death bed.
Rowena Ravenclaw's Diadem, Helga Hufflepuff's Cup and SalazarSlytherin's Locket, made up three of Lord Voldemort's Horcruxes.
As Rowena Ravenclaw was a very intelligent and powerful witch, it is most likely she enchanted the diadem herself, charming the object to increase the wearer's intelligence. Rowena died shortly after her daughter, Helena, stole the diadem.
Helena Ravenclaw, Rowena's daughter, greatly envied the attention her mother received. She stole her mother's diadem, in hope of using its power to make herself wiser, and fled Hogwarts. Her mother fell fatally ill and in spite of Helena's betrayal, wanted to see her daughter one last time.
Rowena sent the BloodyBaron, a man who once loved Helena, to find her. When he caught up with her in a forest in Albania, the same forest Lord Voldemort would use as a hiding place during his exile, she hid the diadem in a hollow tree. Upon her refusal to return with him, the Baron stabbed her; horrified by what he had just done, the Baron then stabbed himself as well. The diadem was later found to be lost, hence the name the lost diadem, and was sought after by students for hundreds of years.
Centuries later, Tom Marvolo Riddle managed to charm the story out of Helena's spirit, then known as the Grey Lady, ghost of the Ravenclaw house. Upon learning of the diadem's location, Riddle travelled to the Albanian forest shortly after he left school and acquired the diadem. He transformed it into his fifthHorcrux by killing an Albanian peasant, and later chose to return it to the very place it had originated from: Hogwarts.
Riddle was arrogant enough to believe that he alone had penetrated Hogwarts' most mysterious secrets, and thus he believed that only he had discovered the Room of Requirement, where he intended to hide thediadem. The Room's manifestation was none other than the Room of Hidden Things inside which Harry Potter would hide the Half-Blood Prince's copy of Advanced Potion-Making many decades later.
Riddle chose to hide the diadem in this room the night he returned to the castle to request a position to teach Defence Against the Dark Arts. Unlike the other Horcruxes, Riddle did not put up heavy magical protections for thediadem,due to his lack of time to do so, along with his arrogance.
The diadem remained undisturbed in the Room of Hidden things for many decades, until it was sighted by Harry Potter during his sixth year as a discoloured old tiara,
though he did not realise what it was, grabbing it and placing on top
of a chipped bust of an ugly old warlock as a means of landmarking where
he had placed his Potions book.
Accompanied by Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, Harry returned to Hogwarts in search of an object belonging to Ravenclaw, having learned that through the mental connection he held with Lord Voldemort that it was hidden at the school.
He was told of her lost diadem by several Ravenclaw members of Dumbledore's Army, and visited Ravenclaw Tower with Luna Lovegood to see the statue of Rowena Ravenclaw wearing her diadem. Later, Harry managed to coax the story of the diadem's theft out of the Grey Lady before figuring out exactly where it was hidden.
Crabbe before he could reach the diadem, and a battle ensued within the Room of Requirement in its form as the Room of Hidden Things,
resulting in Crabbe's creation of Fiendfyre that then went out of his
control and resulted in his death. Harry was able to acquire the diadem,
but was saved the trouble of having to destroy it, since the Fiendfyre
had accidentally incinerated it. The diadem crumbled to pieces in his
hands upon their escape from the Room of Requirement.
Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry was divided into four houses: Gryffindor, founded by GodricGryffindor; Hufflepuff, founded by HelgaHufflepuff; Ravenclaw, founded by RowenaRavenclaw; and Slytherin,founded by Salazar Slytherin.
Gryffindor is one of the four Houses of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and was founded by Godric Gryffindor.
Gryffindor instructed the Sorting Hat
to choose students possessing characteristics he most valued, such as
courage, chivalry, and determination, to be sorted into his house. Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington, also known as Nearly Headless Nick is the House ghost.
Gryffindor corresponds roughly to the element of fire,
and it is for this reason that the colours scarlet and gold were chosen
to represent the house. The colour of fire corresponds to that of a lion as well, with scarlet representing the mane and tail and gold representing the coat.
The emblematic animal is a lion, and its colours are scarlet and gold.
Gryffindors and Slytherins have shared a fierce house rivalry since their founders, Godric Gryffindor
and Salazar Slytherin, respectively, had a severe falling out over
Slytherin's emphasis on blood purity. There might also be an element of
feeling wronged, as Harry and his fellow Gryffindors tend to win in a lot of circumstances which, when viewed from a neutral point of view, may be considered unfair.
The Gryffindor Common Room is located in one of the castle's towers (Gryffindor Tower), the entrance to which is located on the seventh floor and is guarded by an oil painting of the Fat Lady,
who is garbed in a pink silk dress. She permits entry only after being
given the correct (regularly changing) password. Behind her painting is a
large common room, with a fireplace, and two staircases leading up to
the girls' and boys' dormitories. There is a spell on the girls'
staircase that prevents boys from using it; however, there is no such
enchantment on the staircase to the boys' dormitory, allowing girls to
use it whenever they wish, due to the founders' belief that girls were
more trustworthy. The common room is very comfortable, and members of
the Gryffindor house meet there for study groups, celebrations,
or relaxation. The walls are lined with portraits, each one depicting a
previous or current Head of Gryffindor.
The head of house before and during Harry Potter's time was Minerva McGonagall. Minerva became the head of house possibly in 1956, when she was appointed Transfiguration professor at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry,
taking over Albus Dumbledore's previous teaching position when he
became Headmaster. It is unknown who later became the head of house when
she was made Headmistress in 1998 following the end of the Second
Wizarding War.
You might belong in Gryffindor, Where dwell the brave at heart, Their daring, nerve, and chivalry, Set Gryffindors apart...
Hufflepuff is one of the four Houses of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Its founder was the medieval witch Helga Hufflepuff.
Hufflepuff
is the most inclusive among the four houses; valuing hard work,
dedication, patience, loyalty, and fair play rather than a particular
aptitude in its members. Students in Hufflepuff are known to value everyone and treat them as equal.
Hufflepuff
corresponds roughly to the element of earth, and it is for that reason
that the House colours were chosen: yellow represented wheat, while
black was emblematic of soil. The Hufflepuff point hourglass contains yellow diamonds. Students sorted into Hufflepuff often demonstrate exceptional abilities in Herbology, owing to their correspondence to earth.
The emblematic animal is a badger, and yellow and black are its colours.
Hufflepuff
appears to have the least rivalry with the other houses, except in
Quidditch, although the Triwizard Tournament did temporarily put a great
deal of strain on the relationship between Gryffindor and Hufflepuff, due to unusual circumstances of the selection of both Gryffindor student Harry Potter and Hufflepuff student Cedric Diggory as Champions. This was mended by 1998, where a majority of Hufflepuffs rose to defend Harry from Pansy Parkinson and later helped to defend Hogwarts.
Hufflepuff
is the house that produced the fewest dark wizards through out its
history. Their cheerful and friendly demeanor can probably account for
this property of the House. Hufflepuff firmly demonstrated its
loyalty during the Battle of Hogwarts in 1998, when they were second
only to Harry Potter's own house of Gryffindor in the number of students willing to stay and fight against Voldemort and his forces in the defence of their school. The Hufflepuff dormitories
and common room have never been seen by outsiders and is the only house
with repelling devices in case of intruders. They are accessed through a
pile of large barrels, found stacked in a shadowy stone recess on a
right-hand side corridor near the kitchens. The barrel two from the
bottom, middle of the second row, will open if tapped in the rhythm of HelgaHufflepuff.
The Hufflepuff's head of house before and during Harry Potter's timewas Pomona Sprout. She was the Herbology professor at Hogwarts Schoolof Witchcraft and Wizardry.
You might belong in Hufflepuff, Where they are just and loyal, Those patient Hufflepuffs are true, And unafraid of toil...
Ravenclaw is one of the four Houses of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Its founder was the medieval witch Rowena Ravenclaw.
Members of this house are characterised by their wit, learning, and wisdom. Ravenclaw
House prizes learning, wisdom, wit, and intellect in its members. Thus,
many Ravenclaws tend to be academically motivated and talented
students. They also pride themselves on being original in their ideas,
and methods. It's not unusual to find Ravenclaw students practising especially different types of magic that other houses might shun. Ravenclaws tend to be curious about the world and pay attention to the world around them. Ravenclaws are known to be logical and rational.
Ravenclaw
corresponds roughly to the element of air, and it is for that reason
that the House colours were chosen; blue and bronze represent the sky
and eagle feathers respectively, both having much to do with air. The Ravenclaw points hourglass contains blue sapphires.
The emblematic animal symbol is an eagle, andblue and bronze are its colours.
Ravenclaw
House appears to have little rivalry with the other houses, except in
Quidditch. Harry Potter believed that they tended to side with
Gryffindor in its rivalry with Slytherin, as did Hufflepuff house.
The Ravenclaw
common room is in one of the castle's towers and is wide and circular.
You have to climb a tight spiral staircase to get there. It has graceful
arched windows, and the walls are hung with blue and bronze silks. The
domed ceiling is painted with stars, which are echoed in the
midnight-blue carpet. Tables, chairs, and bookcases cover the expanse of
the floor, and a white marble statue of Rowena Ravenclaw sits
next to the door that leads to the dormitories above. Harry Potter
entered the common room in 1998 while searching for clues to the
location of one of Voldemort's Horcruxes. Unlike the other common rooms
in the school, a logical riddle given by a bronze eagle-shaped knocker
must be answered to enter.
The Head of Ravenclaw is Filius Flitwick and the house ghost is the Grey Lady, otherwise known as the daughter of Rowena Ravenclaw, HelenaRavenclaw.
Or yet in wise old Ravenclaw, If you've a ready mind, Where those of wit and learning, Will always find their kind...
Slytherin is one of the four Houses at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, founded by Salazar Slytherin.
In establishing the house, Salazar instructed the Sorting Hat
to pick students who had a few particular characteristics he most
valued. Slytherins tend to be ambitious, shrewd, cunning, strong
leaders, and achievement-oriented. They also have highly developed
senses of self-preservation. This means that Slytherins tend to hesitate
before acting, so as to weigh all possible outcomes before deciding
exactly what should be done.
Slytherin
corresponds roughly with the element of water due to serpents being
commonly associated with the sea and lochs in western European
mythology, as well as serpents being physically fluid and flexible
animals. Similarly, in Celtic mythology, water is seen as a portal to
another world, leading some to speculate that the element was chosen to
symbolise many Slytherins' hope for a pure-blood only community.
The colours also correspond with waters around lakes and lochs often
being green, and silver being often associated with grey rainwater.
The emblematic animal of the house is a snake and its colours are green and silver.
Slytherin
and Gryffindor are generally rivals in Quidditch and for the House Cup,
of which the former had won seven years in a row prior to Harry
Potter's arrival at Hogwarts in 1991. It is also rare for Slytherin
and Gryffindor students to be friendly with one another, and is also
quite common for them to share animosity. There are exceptions, such as
Slytherin Merlin who had a friendship with Gryffindor Sir Cadogan and Slytherin Severus Snape and Gryffindor Lily Evans, who were best friends until Snape's use of the slur Mudblood as well as his aspirations to be a Death Eater caused Lily to sever their ties.
The Slytherin common room is in the dungeons of Hogwarts Castle
and underneath the Black Lake. Because of this, the light in the common
room is green. Harry Potter along with Ron Weasley entered the common
room in his second year to find out if Draco Malfoy was the one opening the Chamber of Secrets. To enter the Slytherin
common room one must merely speak aloud the current password in front
of a stretch of a damp stone wall; once the word is uttered a concealed
stone door will slide aside leaving a rectangular hole in the wall
leading to the Slytherin common room.
Slytherin's head of house for Harry's first six years of school was SeverusSnape; however, as he fled with the Death Eaters at the end of Harry's sixth year, Potions Master Horace Slughorn became the head of SlytherinHouse.
Ravenclaw's Diadem, also known as the Lost Diadem of Ravenclaw, was the only known relic once belonging to Rowena Ravenclaw, the founder of Ravenclaw House at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Etched upon its surface was Ravenclaw's famous quote: Wit beyond measure is man's greatest treasure.
It was said to enhance the wisdom of its wearer, which is Ravenclaw House's most treasured attribute. It had a blue sapphire shaped like an oval. The diadem was later stolen by her daughter, Helena, a fact Rowena kept a secret from the other founders 'till her death bed.
Rowena Ravenclaw's Diadem, Helga Hufflepuff's Cup and SalazarSlytherin's Locket, made up three of Lord Voldemort's Horcruxes.
As Rowena Ravenclaw was a very intelligent and powerful witch, it is most likely she enchanted the diadem herself, charming the object to increase the wearer's intelligence. Rowena died shortly after her daughter, Helena, stole the diadem.
Helena Ravenclaw, Rowena's daughter, greatly envied the attention her mother received. She stole her mother's diadem, in hope of using its power to make herself wiser, and fled Hogwarts. Her mother fell fatally ill and in spite of Helena's betrayal, wanted to see her daughter one last time.
Rowena sent the Bloody Baron, a man who once loved Helena, to find her. When he caught up with her in a forest in Albania, the same forest Lord Voldemort would use as a hiding place during his exile, she hid the diadem in a hollow tree. Upon her refusal to return with him, the Baron stabbed her; horrified by what he had just done, the Baron then stabbed himself as well. The diadem was later found to be lost, hence the name the lost diadem, and was sought after by students for hundreds of years.
Centuries later, Tom Marvolo Riddle managed to charm the story out of Helena's spirit, then known as the Grey Lady, ghost of the Ravenclaw house. Upon learning of the diadem's location, Riddle travelled to the Albanian forest shortly after he left school and acquired the diadem. He transformed it into his fifthHorcrux by killing an Albanian peasant, and later chose to return it to the very place it had originated from: Hogwarts.
Riddle was arrogant enough to believe that he alone had penetrated Hogwarts' most mysterious secrets, and thus he believed that only he had discovered the Room of Requirement, where he intended to hide thediadem. The Room's manifestation was none other than the Room of Hidden Things inside which Harry Potter would hide the Half-Blood Prince's copy of Advanced Potion-Making many decades later.
Riddle chose to hide the diadem in this room the night he returned to the castle to request a position to teach Defence Against the Dark Arts. Unlike the other Horcruxes, Riddle did not put up heavy magical protections for thediadem,due to his lack of time to do so, along with his arrogance.
The diadem remained undisturbed in the Room of Hidden things for many decades, until it was sighted by Harry Potter during his sixth year as a discoloured old tiara,
though he did not realise what it was, grabbing it and placing on top
of a chipped bust of an ugly old warlock as a means of landmarking where
he had placed his Potions book.
Accompanied by Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, Harry returned to Hogwarts in search of an object belonging to Ravenclaw, having learned that through the mental connection he held with Lord Voldemort that it was hidden at the school.
He was told of her lost diadem by several Ravenclaw members of Dumbledore's Army, and visited Ravenclaw Tower with Luna Lovegood to see the statue of Rowena Ravenclaw wearing her diadem. Later, Harry managed to coax the story of the diadem's theft out of the Grey Lady before figuring out exactly where it was hidden.
Crabbe before he could reach the diadem, and a battle ensued within the Room of Requirement in its form as the Room of Hidden Things,
resulting in Crabbe's creation of Fiendfyre that then went out of his
control and resulted in his death. Harry was able to acquire the diadem,
but was saved the trouble of having to destroy it, since the Fiendfyre
had accidentally incinerated it. The diadem crumbled to pieces in his
hands upon their escape from the Room of Requirement.
Today, The Weasleys and The Grandma have visited Hogwarts guided by Professor Albus Dumbledore,its Headmaster and ProfessorRubeus Hagrid,its Guard.
They have been talking about its four Houses, their history, members, values and rooms. It has been an amazing interesting day.
Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry was divided into four houses: Gryffindor, founded by GodricGryffindor; Hufflepuff, founded by HelgaHufflepuff; Ravenclaw, founded by RowenaRavenclaw; and Slytherin, founded by Salazar Slytherin.
Gryffindor is one of the four Houses of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry and was founded by Godric Gryffindor.
Gryffindor instructed the Sorting Hat
to choose students possessing characteristics he most valued, such as
courage, chivalry, and determination, to be sorted into his house. Sir Nicholas de Mimsy-Porpington, also known as Nearly Headless Nick is the House ghost.
Gryffindor corresponds roughly to the element of fire,
and it is for this reason that the colours scarlet and gold were chosen
to represent the house. The colour of fire corresponds to that of a lion as well, with scarlet representing the mane and tail and gold representing the coat.
The emblematic animal is a lion, and its colours are scarlet and gold.
Gryffindors and Slytherins have shared a fierce house rivalry since their founders, Godric Gryffindor
and Salazar Slytherin, respectively, had a severe falling out over
Slytherin's emphasis on blood purity. There might also be an element of
feeling wronged, as Harry and his fellow Gryffindors tend to win in a lot of circumstances which, when viewed from a neutral point of view, may be considered unfair.
The Gryffindor Common Room is located in one of the castle's towers (Gryffindor Tower), the entrance to which is located on the seventh floor and is guarded by an oil painting of the Fat Lady,
who is garbed in a pink silk dress. She permits entry only after being
given the correct (regularly changing) password. Behind her painting is a
large common room, with a fireplace, and two staircases leading up to
the girls' and boys' dormitories. There is a spell on the girls'
staircase that prevents boys from using it; however, there is no such
enchantment on the staircase to the boys' dormitory, allowing girls to
use it whenever they wish, due to the founders' belief that girls were
more trustworthy. The common room is very comfortable, and members of
the Gryffindor house meet there for study groups, celebrations,
or relaxation. The walls are lined with portraits, each one depicting a
previous or current Head of Gryffindor.
The head of house before and during Harry Potter's time was Minerva McGonagall. Minerva became the head of house possibly in 1956, when she was appointed Transfiguration professor at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry,
taking over Albus Dumbledore's previous teaching position when he
became Headmaster. It is unknown who later became the head of house when
she was made Headmistress in 1998 following the end of the Second
Wizarding War.
You might belong in Gryffindor, Where dwell the brave at heart, Their daring, nerve, and chivalry, Set Gryffindors apart...
Hufflepuff is one of the four Houses of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Its founder was the medieval witch Helga Hufflepuff.
Hufflepuff
is the most inclusive among the four houses; valuing hard work,
dedication, patience, loyalty, and fair play rather than a particular
aptitude in its members. Students in Hufflepuff are known to value everyone and treat them as equal.
Hufflepuff
corresponds roughly to the element of earth, and it is for that reason
that the House colours were chosen: yellow represented wheat, while
black was emblematic of soil. The Hufflepuff point hourglass contains yellow diamonds. Students sorted into Hufflepuff often demonstrate exceptional abilities in Herbology, owing to their correspondence to earth.
The emblematic animal is a badger, and yellow and black are its colours.
Hufflepuff
appears to have the least rivalry with the other houses, except in
Quidditch, although the Triwizard Tournament did temporarily put a great
deal of strain on the relationship between Gryffindor and Hufflepuff, due to unusual circumstances of the selection of both Gryffindor student Harry Potter and Hufflepuff student Cedric Diggory as Champions. This was mended by 1998, where a majority of Hufflepuffs rose to defend Harry from Pansy Parkinson and later helped to defend Hogwarts.
Hufflepuff
is the house that produced the fewest dark wizards through out its
history. Their cheerful and friendly demeanor can probably account for
this property of the House. Hufflepuff firmly demonstrated its
loyalty during the Battle of Hogwarts in 1998, when they were second
only to Harry Potter's own house of Gryffindor in the number of students willing to stay and fight against Voldemort and his forces in the defence of their school. The Hufflepuff dormitories
and common room have never been seen by outsiders and is the only house
with repelling devices in case of intruders. They are accessed through a
pile of large barrels, found stacked in a shadowy stone recess on a
right-hand side corridor near the kitchens. The barrel two from the
bottom, middle of the second row, will open if tapped in the rhythm of HelgaHufflepuff.
The Hufflepuff's head of house before and during Harry Potter's timewas Pomona Sprout. She was the Herbology professor at Hogwarts Schoolof Witchcraft and Wizardry.
You might belong in Hufflepuff, Where they are just and loyal, Those patient Hufflepuffs are true, And unafraid of toil...
Ravenclaw is one of the four Houses of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Its founder was the medieval witch Rowena Ravenclaw.
Members of this house are characterised by their wit, learning, and wisdom. Ravenclaw
House prizes learning, wisdom, wit, and intellect in its members. Thus,
many Ravenclaws tend to be academically motivated and talented
students. They also pride themselves on being original in their ideas,
and methods. It's not unusual to find Ravenclaw students practising especially different types of magic that other houses might shun. Ravenclaws tend to be curious about the world and pay attention to the world around them. Ravenclaws are known to be logical and rational.
Ravenclaw
corresponds roughly to the element of air, and it is for that reason
that the House colours were chosen; blue and bronze represent the sky
and eagle feathers respectively, both having much to do with air. The Ravenclaw points hourglass contains blue sapphires.
The emblematic animal symbol is an eagle, andblue and bronze are its colours.
Ravenclaw
House appears to have little rivalry with the other houses, except in
Quidditch. Harry Potter believed that they tended to side with
Gryffindor in its rivalry with Slytherin, as did Hufflepuff house.
The Ravenclaw
common room is in one of the castle's towers and is wide and circular.
You have to climb a tight spiral staircase to get there. It has graceful
arched windows, and the walls are hung with blue and bronze silks. The
domed ceiling is painted with stars, which are echoed in the
midnight-blue carpet. Tables, chairs, and bookcases cover the expanse of
the floor, and a white marble statue of Rowena Ravenclaw sits
next to the door that leads to the dormitories above. Harry Potter
entered the common room in 1998 while searching for clues to the
location of one of Voldemort's Horcruxes. Unlike the other common rooms
in the school, a logical riddle given by a bronze eagle-shaped knocker
must be answered to enter.
The Head of Ravenclaw is Filius Flitwick and the house ghost is the Grey Lady, otherwise known as the daughter of Rowena Ravenclaw, HelenaRavenclaw.
Or yet in wise old Ravenclaw, If you've a ready mind, Where those of wit and learning, Will always find their kind...
Slytherin is one of the four Houses at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, founded by Salazar Slytherin.
In establishing the house, Salazar instructed the Sorting Hat
to pick students who had a few particular characteristics he most
valued. Slytherins tend to be ambitious, shrewd, cunning, strong
leaders, and achievement-oriented. They also have highly developed
senses of self-preservation. This means that Slytherins tend to hesitate
before acting, so as to weigh all possible outcomes before deciding
exactly what should be done.
Slytherin
corresponds roughly with the element of water due to serpents being
commonly associated with the sea and lochs in western European
mythology, as well as serpents being physically fluid and flexible
animals. Similarly, in Celtic mythology, water is seen as a portal to
another world, leading some to speculate that the element was chosen to
symbolise many Slytherins' hope for a pure-blood only community.
The colours also correspond with waters around lakes and lochs often
being green, and silver being often associated with grey rainwater.
The emblematic animal of the house is a snake and its colours are green and silver.
Slytherin
and Gryffindor are generally rivals in Quidditch and for the House Cup,
of which the former had won seven years in a row prior to Harry
Potter's arrival at Hogwarts in 1991. It is also rare for Slytherin
and Gryffindor students to be friendly with one another, and is also
quite common for them to share animosity. There are exceptions, such as
Slytherin Merlin who had a friendship with Gryffindor Sir Cadogan and Slytherin Severus Snape and Gryffindor Lily Evans, who were best friends until Snape's use of the slur Mudblood as well as his aspirations to be a Death Eater caused Lily to sever their ties.
The Slytherin common room is in the dungeons of Hogwarts Castle
and underneath the Black Lake. Because of this, the light in the common
room is green. Harry Potter along with Ron Weasley entered the common
room in his second year to find out if Draco Malfoy was the one opening the Chamber of Secrets. To enter the Slytherin
common room one must merely speak aloud the current password in front
of a stretch of a damp stone wall; once the word is uttered a concealed
stone door will slide aside leaving a rectangular hole in the wall
leading to the Slytherin common room.
Slytherin's head of house for Harry's first six years of school was SeverusSnape; however, as he fled with the Death Eaters at the end of Harry's sixth year, Potions Master Horace Slughorn became the head of SlytherinHouse.
Ravenclaw's Diadem, also known as the Lost Diadem of Ravenclaw, was the only known relic once belonging to Rowena Ravenclaw, the founder of Ravenclaw House at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Etched upon its surface was Ravenclaw's famous quote: Wit beyond measure is man's greatest treasure.
It was said to enhance the wisdom of its wearer, which is Ravenclaw House's most treasured attribute. It had a blue sapphire shaped like an oval. The diadem was later stolen by her daughter, Helena, a fact Rowena kept a secret from the other founders 'till her death bed.
Rowena Ravenclaw's Diadem, Helga Hufflepuff's Cup and SalazarSlytherin's Locket, made up three of Lord Voldemort's Horcruxes.
As Rowena Ravenclaw was a very intelligent and powerful witch, it is most likely she enchanted the diadem herself, charming the object to increase the wearer's intelligence. Rowena died shortly after her daughter, Helena, stole the diadem.
Ravenclaw's Diadem
Ravenclaw's Diadem
Helena Ravenclaw, Rowena's daughter, greatly envied the attention her mother received. She stole her mother's diadem, in hope of using its power to make herself wiser, and fled Hogwarts. Her mother fell fatally ill and in spite of Helena's betrayal, wanted to see her daughter one last time.
Rowena sent the Bloody Baron, a man who once loved Helena, to find her. When he caught up with her in a forest in Albania, the same forest Lord Voldemort would use as a hiding place during his exile, she hid the diadem in a hollow tree. Upon her refusal to return with him, the Baron stabbed her; horrified by what he had just done, the Baron then stabbed himself as well. The diadem was later found to be lost, hence the name the lost diadem, and was sought after by students for hundreds of years.
Centuries later, Tom Marvolo Riddle managed to charm the story out of Helena's spirit, then known as the Grey Lady, ghost of the Ravenclaw house. Upon learning of the diadem's location, Riddle travelled to the Albanian forest shortly after he left school and acquired the diadem. He transformed it into his fifthHorcrux by killing an Albanian peasant, and later chose to return it to the very place it had originated from: Hogwarts.
Riddle was arrogant enough to believe that he alone had penetrated Hogwarts' most mysterious secrets, and thus he believed that only he had discovered the Room of Requirement, where he intended to hide thediadem. The Room's manifestation was none other than the Room of Hidden Things inside which Harry Potter would hide the Half-Blood Prince's copy of Advanced Potion-Making many decades later.
Riddle chose to hide the diadem in this room the night he returned to the castle to request a position to teach Defence Against the Dark Arts. Unlike the other Horcruxes, Riddle did not put up heavy magical protections for thediadem,due to his lack of time to do so, along with his arrogance.
The diadem remained undisturbed in the Room of Hidden things for many decades, until it was sighted by Harry Potter during his sixth year as a discoloured old tiara, though he did not realise what it was, grabbing it and placing on top of a chipped bust of an ugly old warlock as a means of landmarking where he had placed his Potions book.
Accompanied by Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger, Harry returned to Hogwarts in search of an object belonging to Ravenclaw, having learned that through the mental connection he held with Lord Voldemort that it was hidden at the school.
He was told of her lost diadem by several Ravenclaw members of Dumbledore's Army, and visited Ravenclaw Tower with Luna Lovegood to see the statue of Rowena Ravenclaw wearing her diadem. Later, Harry managed to coax the story of the diadem's theft out of the Grey Lady before figuring out exactly where it was hidden.
Crabbe before he could reach the diadem, and a battle ensued within the Room of Requirement in its form as the Room of Hidden Things, resulting in Crabbe's creation of Fiendfyre that then went out of his control and resulted in his death. Harry was able to acquire the diadem, but was saved the trouble of having to destroy it, since the Fiendfyre had accidentally incinerated it. The diadem crumbled to pieces in his hands upon their escape from the Room of Requirement.
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