Pottermore How to Take the Sorting Test Again

On Pottermore, a lot of people are getting surprised by the Sorting Hat. People who have identified throughout their entire Harry Potter lives with one House or another are getting put into "the wrong House"!!!

Then what'south happening?

The Numbers Game

Some people recall that the sorting is all really a numbers game. Subsequently all, they say, look at the House numbers!

Currently, with 392,561 students within the Great Hall, the House breakup looks like this:

Hufflepuff: 98,573 members (25.1%)

Ravenclaw: 98,453 members (25.1%)

Gryffindor: 98,192 members (25.0%)

Slytherin: 97,343 members (24.8%)

That's a fairly even distribution – also even for some people to accept that it could possibly result from an honest sorting mechanism. Could it peradventure exist a numbers game – and the sorting itself exist completely random?

Well, some math geeks predicted precisely this result – i.eastward., that as increasing numbers of people entered Pottermore, the Houses would distribute more than and more evenly. In the first, from what I understand, the results were decidedly skewed towards Ravenclaw. As more people have joined, the distribution has become more than fifty-fifty.

At whatever rate, information technology does not make sense to me – strictly from a business organisation perspective – that JKR would involve herself in  Pottermore, brand it every bit "more Potter" from J.1000. Rowling, claim pride in the accuracy of her sorting mechanism… so just leave the sorting to random chance. She knows the Houses. She wrote the questions. She claims that the people in her life who have taken the Pottermore sorting quiz have ended up in exactly the Houses she predicted they would end up in.

No, as crazy equally those numbers might look, the notion that JKR would intentionally mislead the fandom nigh the sorting on a site that has involved multiple years of planning (and a tremendous corporeality of J.K. Rowling branding) only makes no sense at all.

Only I'm a Ravenclaw! How Did I End Upward in ______________ ?!?!?!?!?

Ravenclaw is the new Gryffindor. Everybody wants to live in Ravenclaw Tower these days… and inappreciably anyone wants to stop up in Hufflepuff. We see this fandom trend fifty-fifty in the Expecto Patronum! poll:

Ravenclaw (197 votes):
30.78%

Gryffindor (160 votes):
25%

I don't accept a preference. I'll let the Pottermore Sorting Hat determine (135 votes):
21.09%

Slytherin (112 votes):
17.five%

Hufflepuff (36 votes):
v.63%

The reason for the stiff Ravenclaw preference is that the fandom stereotype of Ravenclaw is that these are the smart, bookish, nerds. But are they really?

In the Ravenclaw Firm History, I learned that Luna Lovegood is not an outlier. She is the norm. Ravenclaws may possess "wit beyond measure out," but according to the History, Ravenclaw's strongest merits to fame is the eccentricity of the House – filled with famous Ravenclaws wearing jellyfish hats, communicating only through fume, or asserting the Wizarding Earth's "inalienable right to party."

Slytherin tin be equally intelligent as Ravenclaw, just the House is focused less on eccentricity than on achieving greatness… i.east., on doing something boggling and learning equally much about magic as possible. Unfortunately, such a goal can easily be abused (meet Tom Riddle), just information technology doesn't have to exist abused (run into Merlin, the greatest Slytherin of all time).

A lot of people think that the Sorting Hat is mis-sorting people because fandom stereotypes of the Houses are frequently not beingness confirmed in the sortings. Self-identified Slytherins are ending up in Ravenclaw. Cocky-identified Ravenclaws are catastrophe up in Slytherin… and Hufflepuff… and, occasionally, Gryffindor!

Merely is the fandom right about the Houses… and JKR wrong? She wrote the questions, and she stands by the sorting. Is the fandom perhaps misinformed about the truthful nature of the Houses and needs to beginning re-evaluating the Houses based on the new information provided?

I know my answer. What is yours?

ETA:
My friend arithmancer has provided a theory in the Comments indicating how it would exist possible to base the sorting quiz results entirely on the respondent's answers and simultaneously quarter the students. Check it out.

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Source: https://expatronum.wordpress.com/2011/09/19/pottermore-is-the-sorting-hat-rigged/