For the most part, all the close formative friendships the characters made were with people of their own house and followed them into adulthood - the Weasleys, Lupin, Sirius Black, and James and Lily Potter all stuck together. It’s not a stretch to say that the house the characters were in changed the course of their lives. Seeing the way that people IRL took the sorting to heart made me think back on the books, where the sorting had actual consequences for the characters. Literally out of all the magical creatures in the Potter universe, J.K. It’s come up loads in conversation recently and people have really been passionate about it: the Gryffindors generally gloated about being in “the best house,” the Ravenclaws settled, most Slytherins were furious and somebody had the gall to tell me, a Hufflepuff, that I was in “the sh*t house.” Hard not to take that one personally TBH, though I see their point. (The option for freak out and do nothing wasn’t available, so we went with “yes, then walk away” because she’s bad with confrontation.) Just the other day, I squished around a friend’s computer screen with a bunch of other people as she took the test and answered arbitrary questions about rivers, Hogwarts classes, and how you’d react if a Muggle found out you were secretly magical. If you've ever had a poke around on Pottermore, you'll know the Harry Potter's Sorting Hat quiz has been around for a little while, but it seems to have seen a resurgence as of late with YouTubers, magazines, and those of us bored at the office.
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