Harry Potter // Fan Club

I just got my letter!
It's really quite fun :3

Darnnnn. Well I'll just wait. D: Seems like a lot of people I know got in this batch.

Nick is the first person I know who got in, haha. Which is probably a good thing since if any of my RL friends get in before me I'll be so tempted to just go creep their computer while they're on it and spoil myself. ;~;

I'm currently making a potion :D
Go Ravenclaw!
and I was on negative house points for blowing up my cauldron

I'm MirrorRose5, if anyone wants to add me

The number of people in each house is weirdly close, am I the only one that thinks it's strange? I know that Ravenclaw is 1000 ahead of the others, but still, that is pretty close considering there are about 60,000 people using the site (from those figures).

Patchisou Yutohru said:

Phoenix feather cores aren't at all Gryffindor types. Most of the Gryffindor characters have dragon heartstring as a wand core. The only known characters who have Phoenix feather are Harry and Voldemort.

Click to expand...

So I was spoiling myself by reading some of the extra info from Pottermore, and

Impo said:

I'm currently making a potion :D
Go Ravenclaw!
and I was on negative house points for blowing up my cauldron

I'm MirrorRose5, if anyone wants to add me

Click to expand...

Haha, so you can see how many house points you've individually earned and lost, as well as the total score for everyone? That's good

Jorah said:

The number of people in each house is weirdly close, am I the only one that thinks it's strange? I know that Ravenclaw is 1000 ahead of the others, but still, that is pretty close considering there are about 60,000 people using the site (from those figures).

Click to expand...

That's why I'm assuming that instead of the sorting quiz being wholly accurate, it really takes into consideration the numbers of each house so that one isn't way higher than another. :s

I think it's just a coincidence. I don't believe that JK Rowling would very much support house numbers playing any part in the sorting process. The sorting process surprised me so much, because she has a little video introduction explaining everything. The way she speaks and her tone is just so pure. She obviously put too much care and thought into it to have numbers influencing the outcome.

Jorah said:

So I was spoiling myself by reading some of the extra info from Pottermore, and

Spoiler:

It seems as though phoenix feather is rarely given to people. Can't find the actual source now since they appeared to have taken it down >_> But I was reading through all the detail on wand wood, and wow JK, you've put a lot of thought into this o.o Amazing.

Click to expand...

I could swear I've heard it stated before that the Sorting Hat itself (in HP canon) also takes numbers into account somewhat, though. I mean, it would be ridiculous if one year there were 20 new Slytherins and only 3 new students in each of the other houses or something.

edit: haha, it wouldn't matter interaction-wise but isn't there a House Cup? If you've got twice the number of people earning (or losing, but I imagine you earn more points than lose on the whole) points for one house compared to all the others, it would be mighty unbalanced.

Jorah said:

Haha, so you can see how many house points you've individually earned and lost, as well as the total score for everyone? That's good

Click to expand...

The amount of house points someone's earned is shown on their profile, but you won't know if someone lost house points unless you're friends with them, because it's shown on your gateway. There's also a leaderboard in your common room with the points of everyone who's in your house.

The amount of house points some people have is absolutely absurd! I honestly don't know how they've managed to get so much since the only way to get house points is by dueling, brewing potions (5pts for successful brews, 1pt for failing difficult potions, -5 points for blowing up your cauldron) and finding items in the pages of the story (1pt).

Aren't potions brewed in realtime too? (Or at least, that's what I heard.) So I guess the leaders would have to be the people who got in on the first day and spend all waking hours on Pottermore. Probably not a hard thing to do if you're absolutely obsessed and not working over the summer. :P

Lightning said:

edit: haha, it wouldn't matter interaction-wise but isn't there a House Cup? If you've got twice the number of people earning (or losing, but I imagine you earn more points than lose on the whole) points for one house compared to all the others, it would be mighty unbalanced.

Click to expand...

I'm unsure. When Ravenclaw was in the lead by like 1,000 members or something like that, Slytherin was in second. For the most part, Slytherin is the one that's always had the least amount of members. Even thought they're closer now, I don't think all too much that the amount of members in the houses would play much of a threat against ones with lesser numbers. If you think about it, the way the house functions probably will play more of a threat. To my knowledge, since Pottermore opened, most of the time it was Ravenclaw and Slytherin neck and neck for the lead and that makes sense when you look at the house with both of them being achievement-oriented houses. At the moment, Hufflepuff is in last place, and it's the house with the second largest number of members. Slytherin is the one with the least, and it's only 400 points away from getting the lead again.

Lightning said:

Aren't potions brewed in realtime too? (Or at least, that's what I heard.) So I guess the leaders would have to be the people who got in on the first day and spend all waking hours on Pottermore. Probably not a hard thing to do if you're absolutely obsessed and not working over the summer. :P

Click to expand...

They are. And if you come back over the time it designates, they fail and you lose house points. :(

I am beyond jealous of your core. :(

My friend got phoenix feather.
I got a dragon core BD .

As for the members and house points, Ravenclaw has most of both.
Exactly 24,000 students and 9,485. I would think the Sorting Hat takes account into the numbers of students in houses. But only slightly - I got into Ravenclaw and it was the most populated house.

GO RAVENCLAW! :D

Sorry, I'm fanguying

mzmingle said:

are any of you RoseCastle145? I got added by them and I wanted to know if it was any of you. how about we do a progress thing where we write who we've added, how far we are, etc.

Click to expand...

sounds like fun, I've finished the first book and collected most items.
What's your username, I'm MirrorRose5 :D

Potions and Stories are the only way to currently get house points.
I'm pretty sure once the duelling gets fixed you'll be able to earn more house points there - I don't know how some people have over a thousand points already.