![]() The hat offers Harry both Gryffindor and Slytherin. When recalling the experiences that individuals had with the hat, I realized that the Sorting Hat often gives first years the choice between two houses before making its final decision. Even outside of the fantasy, I am both an experience-addicted Army veteran and a student finishing a masters in English while writing three blogs. ![]() As an ENTP, I can never decide if I should party it up as a king among nerds in Ravenclaw or jump headfirst into a myriad of experiences as a smart ass in Gryffindor. ![]() I also have great difficulty determining my own house. You can’t say that Harry Potter, Hermione Granger, and the Weasley twins have much more in common than their bravery. While each Hogwart’s House maintains its own peculiar culture, they feature a variety of personality types. Most of the metrics I have seen that combine Potter lore with personality typology try to assign only one house to each type or temperament. Perhaps the truth remains more complicated and we are more than our mere birth. ![]() When we hear descriptors like brave and daring, patient and hard-working, witty and intelligent, or cunning and ambitious, we easily assume that the Sorting Hat speaks of personality traits, something inborn in the wearer. I am also not the first person to try to apply Myers-Briggs typology to the Hat’s madness. I am not the first person to try to decipher the method’s of JK Rowling’s Sorting Hat in the Harry Potter series. The Sorting Hat of Harry Potter and Myers-Briggs Personality Typology ![]()
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