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Hogwarts Secrets; All About Hogwarts
Topic Started: May 16 2005, 06:43 AM (1,146 Views)
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History of Hogwarts

"Hogwarts was founded over a thousand years ago - the precise date is uncertain - by the four greatest wizards of the age. The four school houses are named after them: Godric Gryffindor, Helga Hufflepuff, Rowena Ravenclaw, and Salazar Slytherin.

They built this castle together, far from prying Muggle eyes, for it was an age when magic was feared by common people and witches and wizards suffered much persecution. For a few years, the founders worked in harmony together, seeking out youngsters who showed signs of magic and bringing them up to the castle to be educated.

But then disagreements sprang up between them. A rift began to grow between Slytherin and the others. Slytherin wished to be more selective about the students admitted to Hogwarts. He believed that magical learning should be kept within all-magic families.

He disliked taking students of Muggle parentage, believing them to be untrustworthy. After a while, there was a serious argument on the subject between Slytherin and Gryffindor, and Slytherin left the school.

Reliable historical sources tell us this much, but these honest facts have been obscured by the fanciful legend of the Chamber of Secrets. The story goes that Slytherin had built a hidden chamber in the castle, of which the others knew nothing. Slytherin, according to the legend, sealed the Chamber of Secrets so that none would be able to open it until his own true heir arrived at the school.

The heir alone would be able to unleash the horror within and purge the school of all who were unworthy to study magic."

- Professor Binns



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Hannah Potter
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ravenclaw- blue
gryffindor - red
hufflepuff - yelloew
slytherin - green

ravenclaw has a raven
gryffindor has a lion
hufflepuff has a badger
sltytherin has a snake

gryffindors rival house slytherin
ravenclaws rival house hufflepuff
hufflepuffs rival house ravenclaw
slytherins rival house gryffindor
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Henry Shanks
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If you want to say a lion... ok but it's not really a lion.
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н Vincent Valentine
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What excatly is it then?I always thought it was a lion.
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Henry Shanks
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It's a golden gryffin. Think french. Gryffin d'Or. Medieval wizards only had one name (Godric, Salazar, Rowena, Helga). Gryffindor, Slytherin, Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff were only nicknames.
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Squall Valentine
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Ah!I get it now.Very usefull information.
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heirofgryffindor
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ravercalws animal is a eagle the reason i know that is because i have found ont in alot of places
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Hannah Potter
Ravenclaw 2nd year girl

what about hufflepuff then ?
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Archie Duckman
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I'm still pretty sure that's a badger.
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Elizabeth McMahan
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is the badger hard working and stuff? I've never learned anything about badgers..
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Raven Blackforest
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No Ravenclaw has a Raven.
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Rhian Sheridan
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uhh, I think Gryfinndor does have a lion, and ravenclaw is an Eagle. I found my stuff here: http://www.mugglenet.com/Hogwarts/houses.shtml is was the only fansite listed on JK Rowlings site that had anything about the Houses (well that I could find on the website)


Hmm, the link does not seem to be working. But you can go to MuggleNet.com and under the heading Info, go to Hogwarts, then go and find Houses and it will give you Lots of info.
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Hannah Potter
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Slytherin?

badgers live underground a lot.
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Rhian Sheridan
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Slytherins a snake
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Hannah Potter
Ravenclaw 2nd year girl

some of the houses have two colours
hufflepuff yellow and blac
slytherin green and silver
gryffindor red and yellow
ravenclaw blue and yellow

this correct?
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Jacob Black
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no its

hufflepuff: yellow n blak
ravenclaw: blue and bronz
slytherin: green n silver
gryffindor: scarlet n gold
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Hannah Potter
Ravenclaw 2nd year girl

some colours are hard to guess

helga hufflepuff - is hufflpuff lady

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Joshua Kedavra-Mistral 3♂
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Wow, I never knew that! :rolleyes: (That she was for Hufflepuff I mean)
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Joshua Kedavra-Mistral 3♂
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Hannah Potter
Jun 02 2005, 10:52

gryffindors rival house slytherin
ravenclaws rival house hufflepuff
hufflepuffs rival house ravenclaw
slytherins rival house gryffindor

How are Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff rivals? :rolleyes:
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Hannah Potter
Ravenclaw 2nd year girl

well they must be if slytherin is gryffindors
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Joshua Kedavra-Mistral 3♂
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no, Gryffindors and Hufflepuffs are rivals with slytherin. But Ravenclaws get along with Gryffindor and Hufflepuff and don't bother with Slytherin. Just because Gryffindor and Slytherin are rivals doesnt mean ravenclaw and hufflepuff are.
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¤ Coral Rivers
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God lord, i don't mean to sound condesending, rude, obnoxious etc, but i think i'm about to...have many of the people on this topic actually read the books? Hannah, if you have you should def know that slytherin's animal is a snake, and whoever asked about hufflepuff, there is the picture of the hufflepuff crest (and all the others) with the animal on it all over this site!!!!!!! OMG, i just...i can't...in CoS it explains all of this, so if you haven't read the books post here, that in my opinion is the only excuse to ask these qu's unless you're just really supid!!!! (the only sensible qu i can think of on this topic is whether ravenclaw has an eagle or a raven, but i think it's an eagle.)

i'm sorry if i've offended anyone, hannah, i didn't mean to have a go at you especially, it's just when i look at the last ten posts when i'm writing, yours are the only really stupid comments i can see, and i can't remember what other folk have said cos i'm so annoyed. arg!!!!

any MOD, feel free to delete this if you think it's bad, i just needed to write it!!!
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Henry Shanks
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I don't exactly know if it's an eagle or a raven on the Ravenclaw crest (not much difference), but each house's name has a relation with its animal, so:

Ravenclaw - raven
Slytherin - snake (the snake slithers)
Gryffindor - as I said before, it looks like a lion, but I think it's a golden gryffin
Hufflepuff - yet to find out. :lol:

come to think of it, Slytherin does sound a lot like slithering.
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Talia Darkrider
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Ravenclaw's animal is deffinately a Raven. First, Ravenclaw... Second, look at the picture very closely... I've seen raven and eagles up close and the beak, wings, ect. are deffinately that of a raven.
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Hannah Potter
Ravenclaw 2nd year girl

" well if that is correct then thats is ok, but i always thought about what i already said before; but if am wrong then maybe i am wrong maybe all the other three houses gryffindor, ravenclaw and hufflepuff get on with anyone one set for the slytherin`s too guess" :hug:
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