What to label ourselves as instead of relying completely on the Hogwarts houses

When it comes to our Hogwarts houses, we often use them as the end all be all of explaining ourselves. But maybe it’s time to start using other ways of expressing who we are.

We rely too heavily on our Hogwarts houses as fans. That’s not a surprise. For so long, saying you were a Gryffindor solved everything and people seemed to know exactly who you were. The problem? It wasn’t a good indicator then and it isn’t now either. The thing about our Hogwarts houses is that it is an arbitrary decider and we should try and find something else to go off of.

Not only because we need to find ways of separating ourselves from the series but because there has been a “I’m a Ravenclaw/Slytherin/Hufflepuff/Gryffindor” mentality that has made its way across the fandom that does, unfortunately, erase other things we could be using as social indicators of the kind of people we are.

For so long, it was fun to just be a member of that specific house or to make fun of your friends who were some other house but now it’s something we still lean too much on when we could be using other ways to describe ourselves and we should find a way to get back to that.

This isn’t to say to throw out your Gryffindor scarf or your Hufflepuff robes but maybe we just need to collectively look at other ways of relating to series and describing ourselves. Because being a Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, Slytherin, or Hufflepuff is great but there could be more.

How do you think we, as fans, should explain ourselves outside of our Hogwarts houses? Let us know what you think in the comments below!