Happy Birthday, Harry!!!As I've been trying to watch more Booktube to get inspiration for my posts (and because there are a handful of booktubers that I just love to follow), one I stumbled on (from a while ago now) was @polandbananasbooks' "Sorting Books into Hogwarts houses." As I'm a fan of all things Harry Potter, I figured this could be fun!! So here it is: I'm going to take the names of all of my reads so far this year and put them in a hat to draw 10 books to sort (you'll have to trust me since I'm not recording myself. I promise these are random choices!). 15. Made to Stick by Chip & Dan Heath - RavenclawMade to Stick definitely fits with the Ravenclaw values of knowledge and wisdom. The whole point of this book is to help the reader understand the characteristics of ideas and stories that make them stick in the minds of others. Ravenclaws would love this book, because they love to learn and it would help them know how to communicate with others and make their intelligent ideas last. 6. Scarlet by Marissa Meyer - GryffindorScarlet is the second book of Marissa Meyer's Lunar Chronicles. In this "Little Red Riding Hood" retelling, Scarlet meets a street fighter named Wolf who helps her to find her grandmother. This story of a young woman's bravery in standing up for what she believes in and for the family that she has left just screams Gryffindor. The courage both Scarlet and Wolf show throughout the book is admirable, though sometimes downright stupid (which very much reminds me of the Gryffindor house). 11. Miss Peregrines Home for peculiar children by ransom riggs - HufflepuffMiss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children is more of a feel-good, awkward but lasting friendships-type book. This makes me think of Hufflepuffs. There are definitely a lot of bravery themes through the book, but the focus is more on the relationships and friendships built. I also just think of some of the scenes that revolve around food or meals, which also reminds me of the Hufflepuffs and their love for food and fellowship around the dinner table. 23. Be You. Do Good. By Jonathan David Golden - HufflepuffBe You. Do Good. is all about finding your purpose. Being yourself, finding your calling, and doing good in the world around you. This goes along with the whole Hufflepuff, being kind and doing good. 1. The Queen's Lady by Barbara Kyle - SlytherinThere are so many lies and so much deceit to work toward the goals set out in The Queen's Lady. The main character must be deceitful and cunning to survive and help her queen. Not only that, but it seems like everyone else around her has to use the same characteristics as well. Everyone is working toward different goals with different motives and using one another as much as possible to achieve those goals. The themes in this book really just remind me of the cunning Slytherin house. 12. Cress by Marissa Meyer - RavenclawAnother Lunar Chronicles installment (#3), Cress is very obviously Ravenclaw to me (both the book and the character). Cress herself is an amazing coder and hacker. Though she doesn't know how to handle social situations, she is still so intelligent. The book as a whole also focuses on a lot of strategizing to take down the evil Queen Levana. Throughout the story, the characters have to work together, using their separate knowledge to come together and create a major plan to overcome the queen and stop a marriage. 28. A wrinkle in time by madeleine L'engle - GryffindorThroughout A Wrinkle in Time, the characters are pushed to their limit of courage. Meg and Charles go on a search to find their father and bring him back to their family. Soon, they find out that their father hadn't just disappeared on a work mission, but he disappeared across space and time. Charles, and his character, doesn't have much of a problem stepping into the unknown with Mrs. Whatsit, Mrs. Who, and Mrs. Which. Meg on the other hand is not on board, yet she will do anything to save her father and bring him back. 17. Winter by Marissa Meyer - RavenclawAs with Cress, I believe that Winter, the fourth book in the Lunar Chronicles, would also be sorted into Ravenclaw. Winter is the crazy Ravenclaw. Okay, not necessarily crazy. Eccentric. Like Luna Lovegood. As with Cress, there is a lot of strategizing involved in Winter, so I would definitely say this fits into Ravenclaw. Winter as a character is so very brilliant, but she is also going crazy because of the Lunar disease. I just love that she knows that she is going crazy and just embraces it. I feel like that is what a true Ravenclaw would do. 22. Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee - SlytherinI would say that Go Set a Watchman would be sorted into Slytherin. The reason I say this is because throughout this whole book, Scout is questioning if she can trust her family. She's been gone so long, and views and civil unrest have changed her small hometown. One day when she walks into a town meeting, she hears her father and the boy she has been dating for a while share their views that are completely contrary to what Scout believes is right. The entire book, she is battling her views and trying to handle the betrayal she feels. 27. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by j.K. Rowling - GryffindorThe first installment of the Harry Potter series should be sorted into Gryffindor. I truly feel this book is a book of finding yourself and learning to be brave. Harry and his friends may not necessarily start out with the characteristics of a Gryffindor, but by the end, they each exemplify the bravery associated with the red and gold house.
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