And Hermione and McGonnagal are both Gryffindor (in canon). House assignment is broken.
I think you are right about ‘love of knowledge for its own sake’. A certain level of intelligence would also seem to be required.
They have to answer riddles to enter the dorms. But this may not require intelligence so much as genre-savviness. (Particularly in canon.)
How this is supposed to keep anyone out is beyond me. For all we know, canon!Hermione spent most of her spare time hanging out in the Ravenclaw common room tutoring seventh-years.
Yeah, I have to agree that “If Hermione Granger didn’t go to Ravenclaw then there was no good reason for Ravenclaw House to exist.”
Of course, in canon Pettigrew is a Gryffindor. It’s enough to make one wonder about the whole idea of unifying traits.
And Hermione and McGonnagal are both Gryffindor (in canon). House assignment is broken.
I think you are right about ‘love of knowledge for its own sake’. A certain level of intelligence would also seem to be required.
They have to answer riddles to enter the dorms. But this may not require intelligence so much as genre-savviness. (Particularly in canon.)
How this is supposed to keep anyone out is beyond me. For all we know, canon!Hermione spent most of her spare time hanging out in the Ravenclaw common room tutoring seventh-years.
Yeah, I have to agree that “If Hermione Granger didn’t go to Ravenclaw then there was no good reason for Ravenclaw House to exist.”
Of course, in canon Pettigrew is a Gryffindor. It’s enough to make one wonder about the whole idea of unifying traits.