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TangoThang said:
Ravenclaws have generally been pegged as 'the smart ones.' Why then, is the brilliant Hermione Granger a Gryffindor? Could it be that intelligence itself is not enough to qualify as a Ravenclaw? . A lot of people have brains. Most people don't apply them to the extent that a true Ravenclaw does. I propose that to belong in Ravenclaw, a person must have a desire to learn and possess intellectual curiosity. Let me say a few words, first, about sorting in general. In truth, being a Ravenclaw has less to do with whether या not someone is smart, than whether या not a scholarly streak is his most salient quality. I have noticed that not many can fit the whole of their personality into a single House's characteristics. Some Gryffindor, like Hermione Granger, could easily be sorted into a different House--in her case, Ravenclaw. Each person, nevertheless, belongs somewhere because the Sorting Hat considers what lies at the core of someone's being. In Hermione's case, she may have brains, yes, but deep down inside she's a fighter. The Hat saw past Neville's exterior and saw that he is capable of the best kind of bravery and nobility. While Hermione and Neville have the traits of Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff, respectively, the thing that makes them tick determines what House they are in. It is so with every student at Hogwarts. Slytherins, who unfortunately get pigeonholed into the 'villain' category, are nothing of the sort; Peter Pettigrew was a Gryffindor, after all. Not all villains are Slytherins. What a Slytherin is, when it comes down to it, is ambitious. If a person's driving force is a need to be great, a need to impress, then he is a Slytherin. Certainly they are sly--but couldn't a clever Ravenclaw also be sly? What sets the Houses apart is that each student has some quality that reaches to the core of his being. It is that quality that the Sorting Hat sees, recognizes, and names. So what of Ravenclaw? As I said, Ravenclaws are intelligent. But so are many. Instead of measuring someone’s IQ, one must look at how a person lives his life in order to understand what makes him tick. There are certainly people with a lust for knowledge. It doesn't matter what he likes to learn--be it dead languages (into which category I fall), automobiles, science, computers, art, music, सड़क, स्ट्रीट smarts--but it matters that he will learn it solely for the purpose of knowing. I don't study so that I can impress people. I don't volunteer for leadership positions so that I'll be in the spotlight. I do what I do because I'm curious. At the core of every Ravenclaw is a thirst. It's not a thirst for prestige या power, nor a thirst for adventure या strength, nor a thirst for friendship and loyalty. Certainly any दिया member from our House may want या have these things. What we want most, however, is to learn. We may not evern think of it in these terms. A Ravenclaw can be someone with a passion--any passion will do, so long as he can wax poetic about it.
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