Harry Potter
House Quiz

Which Hogwarts house do you belong to? Answer 15 questions and let the Sorting Hat decide.

  • Gryffindor

    Nerve, and being the first one through the door

    Godric Gryffindor

  • Hufflepuff

    Loyalty, patience and plain hard work

    Helga Hufflepuff

  • Ravenclaw

    Curiosity, and wanting to know how it works

    Rowena Ravenclaw

  • Slytherin

    Ambition, and knowing who owes you a favour

    Salazar Slytherin

Fifteen questions, and none of them ask what you are like. They put you in a corridor, a Potions lesson, a Quidditch final and a Restricted Section you have a good reason to break into, and sort you on what you do, into Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw or Slytherin.

Answer as the person you are, not as the person you would like the Sorting Hat to see. The last question is the Hat asking you outright.

1. The Sorting Hat drops over your eyes in the Great Hall and starts weighing the four houses out loud. What do you think back at it?

APut me with my friends, whichever table that is
BPut me where I will be pushed hardest
CAnywhere but the house my family expects
DTake your time. I want to hear how you decide
EGet on with it. I will make it work wherever I land

2. You reach your compartment on the Hogwarts Express and find a trunk that is not yours on the seat, lid half open, owner nowhere in sight. What do you do?

AClose the lid and take the seat opposite until they turn up
BLean in. A glance at the name tag is hardly snooping
CCarry it down the corridor asking every compartment whose it is
DLeave it, and watch who comes back and how they look at you

3. Defence Against the Dark Arts, and the Boggart in the wardrobe turns to you next. What does the class see?

AThe people you love, walking away without looking back
BYourself, perfectly ordinary, and nobody noticing
CA question you cannot answer, asked in front of everyone

4. Your best friend's jinx is getting worse and the counter-curse is in a book in the Restricted Section of the Hogwarts library. The librarian has gone for the night. What happens?

AYou go tonight, with a lit wand and no permission slip
BYou forge the permission slip. It is a very good forgery
CYou wake a professor and take whatever telling-off comes with it
DYou piece the counter-curse together from three unrestricted books
EYou talk a prefect into fetching it for you

5. Quidditch final. Your house is forty points down and the Snitch is nowhere. What are you doing in the stands?

AOn your feet, louder than your whole row put together
BCounting: two goals and a Snitch still wins it
CWatching the other Seeker instead of the ball
DKeeping the first years from giving up and drifting back to the castle

6. A painted knight guards the shortcut to Charms and will not swing aside until you answer his riddle. You are already late. What now?

AAnswer it. Riddles are half the point of this castle
BFlatter him about his armour until he forgets the riddle
CTake the long way at a run and make it, just
DAsk him about the battle in his frame and end up later still

7. Your potion is turning the wrong shade of grey and the professor is at the far bench. What do you do?

AAdd the next ingredient anyway and see what happens
BTake it off the heat and reread the instructions from the top
CTrade a ladleful with the pair beside you, with their nod

8. Hogsmeade, first snow of the year, and you have one Galleon for the whole day. Where does it go?

AButterbeer at the Three Broomsticks for whoever turns up
BA Sneakoscope from Dervish and Banges. Useful things first
CZonko's, and you set one off on the walk back
DA second-hand book from Tomes and Scrolls, out of print for a century
ENothing. You walk up to the Shrieking Shack just to look at it

9. You watch a friend copy from a bewitched quill in an exam. Afterwards they beg you not to say a word. What do you do?

AKeep quiet, and make them revise with you every night until the next one
BTell them plainly: own up, or you will
CSay nothing. It is their name on the parchment, not yours
DAsk how the quill was charmed. Purely academic interest
EWalk them to the professor's office and wait outside the door

10. You pace past the tapestry on the seventh floor three times and the Room of Requirement opens for you. What is behind the door?

AEvery book the Restricted Section ever lost
BA common room with a fire and everyone you miss already inside
CA duelling floor with something on it worth fighting
DA study with one chair and a door only you can find

11. A prefect docks your house ten points for something a classmate did. The classmate says nothing. What do you do?

ATake the points, then have a quiet word with the classmate later
BArgue it out with the prefect, there and then
CLet it go. A favour owed is worth more than ten points

12. The Ministry calls you to a hearing about a friend's underage magic and the Wizengamot wants a straight answer. What do you give them?

AThe whole truth, chin up, and let them make of it what they will
BExactly what is asked and not one syllable more
CThe relevant paragraph of the Decree, marked and ready
DWhat you saw, and then what kind of person your friend is

13. Past midnight, a friend hands you a borrowed map that shows every soul in Hogwarts. What do you look for first?

AThe passage out to Hogsmeade, and whether anyone is watching it
BYour own name, to check it really works
CWhoever has been out of bed every night this week
DThe friend who went missing after dinner
EThe edge of the Forbidden Forest, and what moves in it at night

14. Your wand snaps in half a week before exams and you cannot get to Diagon Alley until Saturday. How do you get through the week?

ABorrow a spare from the friend who owes you and make it behave
BSpellotape it and find out what it does now
CRead up on wandless magic and try it before breakfast
DOwl home, tell your prefect and write everything down

15. The Hat has been quiet on your head for a long minute. Then it asks you outright: is there a house you want? It listened to Harry Potter, so it will listen to you.

AGryffindor. I have wanted it since I first read about it
BHufflepuff. That is where the people I like end up
CRavenclaw. I want the tower with the riddle on the door
DSlytherin. I know how that sounds. I want it anyway
ENo. You have read me already, so say it and I will live with it

The four houses of Hogwarts

Gryffindor

Godric Gryffindor's house lives in a tower behind the portrait of the Fat Lady, in scarlet and gold, under the sign of the lion. The staircase to the girls' dormitory turns into a slide if a boy sets foot on it. Courage is the entry condition, and courage on its own guarantees nothing about the rest. Neville Longbottom was a Gryffindor. So was Peter Pettigrew.

Hufflepuff

Helga Hufflepuff's house, yellow and black under the badger, keeps its common room in a cellar beside the kitchens, behind a stack of barrels. The right one opens when tapped to the rhythm of her name; the wrong one sprays vinegar. The other three founders each named a quality they wanted in a student. Helga Hufflepuff said she would take the lot and teach them all the same.

Ravenclaw

Rowena Ravenclaw's tower has no password. The bronze eagle knocker on the door asks a riddle, and anyone who answers well may go in, whatever their house. Students who get it wrong wait on the landing and learn from whoever comes next. The house forgives a wrong answer more readily than it forgives not caring about the question. Luna Lovegood and Gilderoy Lockhart both came out of that tower.

Slytherin

The Slytherin common room lies under the lake, and its windows show green water and, now and then, the giant squid. Salazar Slytherin wanted the school kept to pure-blood families, lost the argument and left. The house has since produced most of the wizards Hogwarts would rather forget, and also Merlin. Regulus Black and Severus Snape were Slytherins, and each chose the harder side in the end.

The Sorting Hat

The Sorting Hat belonged to Godric Gryffindor. The four founders put some of their own judgement into it before they died. On a first year's head in the Great Hall, it reads the mind under it and weighs what it finds against what each founder prized. It also listens. Harry Potter asked not to be put in Slytherin, and the Hat honoured that. A sorting over five minutes is a hatstall; Hogwarts sees one about every fifty years. From that night the four tables compete for house points.

A floor of Hogwarts drawn as a grid with prefect cut-outs standing on it

Hogwarts Mysteries

Done with the questions? Try a case

A basilisk came out of one of the rooms last night. Put every prefect back where they stood and the empty room gives itself away.

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