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Forget your Hogwarts House, here's how you can identify instead

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Morgan Sung

on June 10, 2020

Forget your Hogwarts House, here's how you can identify instead

After the internet (once again) had to cancel J.K. Rowling for problematic comments, Twitter users are calling for the end of identifying by Hogwarts House.

Author J.K. Rowling may have created a beloved multimillion dollar franchise about the wizarding world, but she continues to tarnish the series with her bad tweets. Most recently, she posted another string of transphobic tweets — and during Pride month, too.

We've been down this road time and time again, as Twitter users reckon with their childhood hero being repeatedly problematic. But the people are unwilling to let this one slide, as a Twitter meme calls for people to stop identifying as their Hogwarts House and suggests other ways to categorize themselves instead.

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The days of claiming to be a Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff, and Slytherin are over. Here are other ways to identify.

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And besides, as the iconic fan musical A Very Potter Musical once said, "Anybody who looks like a good guy into Gryffindor, anybody who looks like a bad guy into Slytherin, and the other two can just go wherever the hell they want."

Topics Harry Potter