Team Gryffindor H2C2 #1 ( Invites Only ) chk note pg18 - Page 9

Originally posted by: GrimReaper

Hinna

I dont know how to make siggies/gifs 😆

Its there in the intro post so im informing you abhi se

Oh I thought you know how to

Okay will remove it :)

Originally posted by: altgr

That just happened once😆

I am from India. Mathematics student.

0 knowledge about HP, never watched movies or read any books.

Love watching Bollywood movies. SRK fan. Also TV shows, especially music shows⭐️.

wahh we have our very own calculator here⭐️

Originally posted by: 23Diya

Hello housemates, I'm Diya.

I'm a Bengali, living in India. I come from Biotechnology background and anything to do with science fascinates me. I'm also starting to take some interest in History now.

Although I only read the Harry Potter books for the first time a few years back, I'm now a huge Potterhead. I've read the books and watched the films multiple times, including Cursed Child book (which I didn't like and don't count as a part of the series) and Fantastic Beasts films (the only two films I've watched in a theater). My biggest success as a HP-fan is to have successfully converted many resisting souls into ardent Potterheads.

I love reading, writing and a little bit of sketching.

I'm also a pet lover and have a one year old pooch at home, currently pulling my hands from the keyboard, so I'd stop typing and start petting him.

I don't watch dramas. The last one I watched was Sherlock (only 1 episode but I liked it). I watch films selectively. Favourites keep changing but I love animated films and thrillers. The last animated film I watched was The Little Mermaid and my current favourite films are the MCU movies, especially The Winter Soldier.

It's great to be a part of Gryffindor and I am looking forward to getting to know new people here. 😃

We have another Potterhead⭐️

Originally posted by: heavenlybliss

Just wondering, are you from Australia?

Nops, but close New Zealand.

I am actually from Delhi, moved to NZ last year.

Originally posted by: Briti1107

Ah another bong girl here. Welcome Diya. 🤗

Thank you 🤗

I'm Briti Sengupta an 18 year old 'beautifully put together mess', who is a living embodiment of art/literature/nature nerd. I also am an ambivert. Some times I would chatter your head away (like now) the other times I'll curl in my favourite corner and read my favourite book with a mug of Chai/Coffee/Hot Chocolate in hand.

Hey, there's so much similarity! I love to chatter away, but I take some time to open up with new people. Once I do, they often tell me how surprising it is to discover the chatty, sassy girl behind the quiet front people usually get to see.

I love my books and I often sneak away to spend some time with them. My books, the characters and their worlds are almost like a second family to me. I do get carried away sometimes, and forget the world around. It happened a lot when I was reading HP. My latest read was this year, when I read book 1 through 3.

I don't drink chai/coffee/hot chocolate, so I just keep a bottle of water or a bag of chips by my side. But I don't think that makes much of a difference coz I just forget about them if the book I'm reading is interesting.

Also I am a huge foodie.

Well, I'm a huge foodie for selected food.😆

My childhood revolved around Harry Potter and Pokémon, and I honestly love the world of magic.

I read HP when I was over 20. I wish they'd release the movies again, so I can watch them in the theater. One of my most loved prized possession is my Harry Potter Book set that I got for my birthday a few years back.

I'm a dog person through and through.

Oh yay! You are a fellow Potterhead and a fellow dog lover too. So, do you have any pet to bring into the common room?

My favourite Harry Potter females are Hermione Jean Granger and Ginevra Molly Weasley. 😎

I love Hermione too but I'm not a big fan of Ginny. I loved Molly Weasley and Minerva McGonagall though. Any scene having Minerva is bound to be filled with sass, and I love it. ⭐️

Of Course Who Can Dislike THE BOY WHO LIVED? I got sorted into Gryffindor by Wizarding World (former Pottermore), BuzzFeed and the Sorting Hat here aka the amazing MOD Minionite. But that's not surprising because in real life too I'm a Gryffindor inside out, including the short temper that I'm trying to keep under control. 😆

BuzzFeed does sorting? I didn't know that. By the time I got into HP, the forum was blocked. So, I didn't get to know any Potterheads here. And I didn't know Shreya is the resident Sorting Hat either.😆 In real life, I feel like I have a bit of every house. And the traits are present in considerable amount, so I can't say that one trait overwhelms the others. But I just go with what the Sorting Hat said.

Alright, it looks like I'm a bigger chatterbox than you.😛

Originally posted by: 23Diya

Oh just wait till I warm up to your presence more. That was just intro where I chatted your ears (read: eyes) off. I'm very passionate about the things I love. Also when I say I'm foodie, I mean I love to eat a lot. I had two pet doggie, among whom one died, may my baby rest in peace. I'll bring a golden retriever with me, cause why not? If Ron Weasley can bring a RAT, I can surely bring a DOG. Books are my personal heaven. Currently reading Ikigai. I suggest this book to everyone. I am a literature and history student, in Class XII, Arts. Also BuzzFeed conducts quizzes to sort us into house, sometimes even taking our preferred food and clothes into account. By Shreya I meant this game where she's sorting us into various houses. 😆 I keep drink with me for aesthetic values, I mean it looks and sounds appealing. But more often than not I can not tear my eyes away from the book and by the time I drink the Chai/Coffee/Hot Chocolate gets cold. 🤣🤣🤣 I am also obsessed with Pokémon and PokéShipping is my first ever ship (and I have many other Anipoke ships). I'm also crazy over PTV Power Couple SaHad and their shows Yakeen Ka Safar and Yeh Dil Mera. ❤️ I love to write and won three gold medals for the same in writing competitions. See I'm blabbering here. Anyway Harry Potter is PLATINUM standard beauty. And please get ready to be bombarded with more infos on The Sword of Gryffindor, The Sorting Hat, The Marauder's Map, Rapport's Law, MACUSA etc. Because yeah you got it I love History. 🤣

The Marauder’s Map

Perhaps no students (even including Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, Hermione Granger and Tom Riddle) have ever explored the castle and grounds of Hogwarts as thoroughly and illicitly as the four creators and contributors to the Marauder’s Map: James Potter, Sirius Black, Remus Lupin and Peter Pettigrew.

James, Sirius and Peter were not initially impelled to explore the school grounds by night out of devilment alone (though that played its part), but by their desire to help their dear friend Remus Lupin to bear his lycanthropy. Prior to the invention of the Wolfsbane Potion, Lupin was compelled to undergo an excruciating transformation every full moon. Once his condition was discovered by his three best friends, they sought a way to render his transformations less solitary and painful, which led to them learning to become (unregistered) Animagi, so that they could keep him company without harm to themselves. The ability of Sirius Black, Peter Pettigrew and James Potter to become, respectively, a dog, a rat and a stag, enabled them to explore the castle grounds by night undetected. The interior of the castle, meanwhile, was mapped over time with the help of James Potter’s Invisibility Cloak.

The Marauder’s Map is lasting testimony to the advanced magical ability of the four friends who included Harry Potter’s father, godfather and favourite teacher. The map they created during their time at Hogwarts appears to be a blank piece of parchment unless activated by the phrase: ‘I solemnly swear that I am up to no good,’ a phrase that, in the case of three of the four makers, should be understood as a joke. The ‘no good’ of which they wrote never denoted Dark magic, but school rule-breaking; similar bravado is evinced by their use of their own nicknames on the map (‘Messrs Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs’).

The magic used in the map’s creation is advanced and impressive; it includes the Homonculous Charm, enabling the possessor of the map to track the movements of every person in the castle, and it was also enchanted to forever repel (as insultingly as possible) the curiosity of their nemesis, Severus Snape.

Although the precise circumstances surrounding the makers’ loss of their map are not given in the Harry Potter novels, it is easy to conclude that they eventually over-reached themselves and were cornered by Argus Filch, probably on a tip-off from Snape, whose obsession it had become to expose his arch-rival, James Potter, in wrongdoing. The masterpiece of a map was confiscated in Sirius, James, Remus and Peter’s final year and none of them were able to steal it back from a well-prepared and suspicious Filch. In any case, their priorities changed in their final months at school, becoming far more serious and focused on the world beyond Hogwarts, where Lord Voldemort was successfully rising to power. All four of the map’s creators would shortly be inducted into the renegade organisation headed by Albus Dumbledore, the Order of the Phoenix, and a map of their old school – no matter how ingenious – would no longer be of use to them except as a piece of nostalgia.

The Marauder’s Map was, however, of immense use to the young Weasley twins. The story of Fred and George’s acquisition of the map is told in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. It was a mark of their high esteem for Harry Potter, and their belief that he stood in need of assistance with a destiny none of them yet fully understood, that they later gifted the map to him, unwittingly passing it on to the child of one of the creators.

The map was subsequently confiscated from Harry Potter by a Death Eater in disguise at the school, who recognised it as a likely source of his own discovery.

J.K. Rowling’s thoughts

The Marauder’s Map subsequently became something of a bane to its true originator (me), because it allowed Harry a little too much freedom of information. I never showed Harry taking the map back from the empty office of (the supposed) Mad-Eye Moody, and I sometimes regretted that I had not capitalised on this mistake to leave it there. However, I like the moment when Harry watches Ginny’s dot moving around the school in Deathly Hallows, so on balance I am glad I let Harry reclaim his rightful property.

The Sorting Hat

The famous Hogwarts Sorting Hat gives an account of its own genesis in a series of songs sung at the beginning of each school year. Legend has it that the hat once belonged to one of the four founders, Godric Gryffindor, and that it was jointly enchanted by all four founders to ensure that students would be sorted into their eponymous houses, which would be selected according to each founder’s particular preferences in students.

The Sorting Hat is one of the cleverest enchanted objects most witches and wizards will ever meet. It literally contains the intelligence of the four founders, can speak (through a rip near its brim) and is skilled at Legilimency, which enables it to look into the wearer’s head and divine his or her capabilities or mood. It can even respond to the thoughts of the wearer.

The Sorting Hat is notorious for refusing to admit it has made a mistake in its sorting of a student. On those occasions when Slytherins behave altruistically or selflessly, when Ravenclaws flunk all their exams, when Hufflepuffs prove lazy yet academically gifted and when Gryffindors exhibit cowardice, the Hat steadfastly backs its original decision. On balance, however, the Hat has made remarkably few errors of judgement over the many centuries it has been at work.

J.K. Rowling’s thoughts

The Sorting Hat does not appear in my earliest plans for Hogwarts. I debated several different methods for sorting students (because I knew from early on that there would be four houses, all with very different qualities). The first was an elaborate, Heath Robinson-ish machine that did all kinds of magical things before reaching a decision, but I did not like it: it felt at once too complicated, and too easy. Next I placed four statues of the four founders in the Entrance Hall, which came alive and selected students from the throng in front of them while the school watched. This was better, but still not quite right. Finally, I wrote a list of the ways in which people can be chosen: eeny meeny miny mo, short straws, chosen by team captains, names out of a hat – names out of a talking hat – putting on a hat – the Sorting Hat.

The Sword of Gryffindor

The sword of Gryffindor was made a thousand years ago by goblins, the magical world’s most skilled metalworkers, and is therefore enchanted. Fashioned from pure silver, it is inset with rubies, the stone that represents Gryffindor in the hour-glasses that count the house points at Hogwarts. Godric Gryffindor’s name is engraved just beneath the hilt.

The sword was made to Godric Gryffindor’s specifications by Ragnuk the First, finest of the goblin silversmiths, and therefore King (in goblin culture, the ruler does not work less than the others, but more skillfully). When it was finished, Ragnuk coveted it so much that he pretended that Gryffindor had stolen it from him, and sent minions to steal it back. Gryffindor defended himself with his wand, but did not kill his attackers. Instead he sent them back to their king bewitched, to deliver the threat that if he ever tried to steal from Gryffindor again, Gryffindor would unsheathe the sword against them all.

The goblin king took the threat seriously and left Gryffindor in possession of his rightful property, but remained resentful until he died. This was the foundation for the false legend of Gryffindor’s theft that persists, in some sections of the goblin community, to this day.

The question of why a wizard would need a sword, though often asked, is easily answered. In the days before the International Statute of Secrecy, when wizards mingled freely with Muggles, they would use swords to defend themselves just as often as wands. Indeed, it was considered unsporting to use a wand against a Muggle sword (which is not to say it was never done). Many gifted wizards were also accomplished duellists in the conventional sense, Gryffindor among them.

There have been many enchanted swords in folklore. The Sword of Nuadu, part of the four legendary treasures of Tuatha Dé Danann, was invincible when drawn. Gryffindor’s sword owes something to the legend of Excalibur, the sword of King Arthur, which in some legends must be drawn from a stone by the rightful king. The idea of fitness to carry the sword is echoed in the sword of Gryffindor’s return to worthy members of its true owner’s house.

J.K. Rowling’s thoughts

There is a further allusion to Excalibur emerging from the lake when Harry must dive into a frozen forest pool to retrieve the sword in Deathly Hallows (though the location of the sword was really due to a spiteful impulse of Snape’s to place it there), for in other versions of the legend, Excalibur was given to Arthur by the Lady of the Lake, and was returned to the lake when he died.

Within the magical world, physical possession is not necessarily a guarantee of ownership. This concept applies to the three Deathly Hallows, and also to Gryffindor’s sword.

I am interested in what happens when cultural beliefs collide. In the Harry Potter books, the most militant of the goblin race consider all goblin-made objects to be theirs by right, although a specific object might be made over to a wizard for his life-span upon a payment of gold. Witches and wizards, like Muggles, believe that once payment has been made, the object belongs to them and their descendants or legatees in perpetuity. This is a clash of values without a solution, because each side has a different concept of what is right. It therefore presents Harry with a difficult moral dilemma when Griphook demands the sword as payment for his services in Deathly Hallows.

Originally posted by: Briti1107

Omg a Golden! I love them. I'll bring a Labrador retrievers. He's only one, and will hopefully get a Golden brother when he's a bit more mature. Maybe a few years old. And he's not an animagus imposer, I checked.

With an literature background, you can give me good book recs. 😃 Although I love reading, I'm currently way behind by general reading standards of book lovers. I'm trying to catch up. Goodreads is helping a lot.

I'll have to take this BuzzFeed quiz.

I last watched Pokemon when I was around 6 or 7. I only remember Pikachu. At that time I used to sketch different Pokemons in my diary. I can't even remember if I liked that cartoon.

You like dramas. Now, this is a topic that I can't discuss with you since I have absolutely no knowledge in this area. I have a few episodes of some Indian dramas because my mom watches them during meal times. I keep mixing up all the stories and characters coz they all seem same to me. 😆

I want some info about Rapport's Law. I don't think I know about it. Is it American Wizarding stuff? I have less knowledge about that.

Well then, you can help me with history too. I suck at it. 😆

EDIT: I took the BuzzFeed quiz - 2 of them. The first one said I'm a Gryffindor and the second was a percentage test for all the houses, with an explanation. The second one was ridiculously accurate (both the percentage and the description). Have you tried that one?