Word: ravenclaw
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...It’s like transferring from Gryffindor to Ravenclaw to Slytherin,” a friend told me once. “You just don’t do it.” I swear I’m not a psycho. I get along fairly well with others. I’m not a serial sexile-er. But when I tell people that I am currently living in my third Harvard House in as many years, you can imagine the puzzled reaction. What’s worse is that when faced with the inevitable question that follows?...
...classes, students learn to distinguish between types of prose by writing their own screenplays based on Potter's exploits; they pick up the basics of geography by plotting locations used in the Potter films. The student body is divided into the four "houses" in Rowling's novels - Hufflepuff, Gryffindor, Ravenclaw and Slytherin - and earn "house points" for academic achievement, just as in the books. "It's made school a lot easier and better," says 10-year-old Chantelle. "Everybody likes going to school...
...between Harvard and Hogwarts are no longer just skin deep in Order of the Phoenix. Sure, Annenberg still bears a striking resemblance to the Hogwarts of the two Potter movies. Hogwarts still has residential Houses, though its sorting system (the cunning kids go to Slytherin, the smart ones to Ravenclaw, the brave to Gryffindor and everyone else to Hufflepuff) is the kind of thing that led Harvard to randomize House assignments in the first place. But Harry’s fifth year at school seems particularly familiar...
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