Okay, this is just a fun nonsense idea I thought up. Please don’t read anything too much into it, I’m just riffing. Sorry if I’ve mischaracterized a religion or Hogwarts house!
What religion typifies each Hogwarts house?
I’ll start with Hufflepuff, which I think is aligned with Buddhism: treat everyone the same, and if you want salvation the only option is to do multiple lifetimes worth of work.
Next is Ravenclaw, which looks a lot like Judaism: there’s a system to the world, you gotta follow the rules, and also lets debate and research endlessly to understand the last corner of things we don’t yet understand.
For Gryffindor, I’m saying Christianity: some things are just right and true and worth going on crusades for, and if you want to get into heaven you just gotta believe hard enough (but also good works might help).
Okay, now for the tough one, Slytherin. I’m going to go with Sorting Hat Chats and say Slytherin is the house of in-group loyalty and base my decision purely on that rather than all the other cruft associated with this house. And if we’re going by that, then I think we gotta link up Slytherin with Islam: if you’re in you’re family; if you’re not in but in-adjacent you’ll get second-class treatment that’s still pretty fair; if you’re out then you’re out and all bets are off.
Now obviously there’s lots of caveats here, like none of these “religions” I’ve picked out are really one single thing but rather multiple traditions and practices some of which don’t fit the pattern above well. Look, I get it. I’m just trying to point at something like the core thing associated with each of these religions that may be deviated from by various branches, e.g. Quakers are obviously Hufflepuffs, atheist are I guess Ravenclaws, LDS is probably Slytherin based on my reasoning above, etc.. This is just meant to be fun and sorry if I offended anyone who comes across this.
Hogwarts Houses as Religions
Okay, this is just a fun nonsense idea I thought up. Please don’t read anything too much into it, I’m just riffing. Sorry if I’ve mischaracterized a religion or Hogwarts house!
What religion typifies each Hogwarts house?
I’ll start with Hufflepuff, which I think is aligned with Buddhism: treat everyone the same, and if you want salvation the only option is to do multiple lifetimes worth of work.
Next is Ravenclaw, which looks a lot like Judaism: there’s a system to the world, you gotta follow the rules, and also lets debate and research endlessly to understand the last corner of things we don’t yet understand.
For Gryffindor, I’m saying Christianity: some things are just right and true and worth going on crusades for, and if you want to get into heaven you just gotta believe hard enough (but also good works might help).
Okay, now for the tough one, Slytherin. I’m going to go with Sorting Hat Chats and say Slytherin is the house of in-group loyalty and base my decision purely on that rather than all the other cruft associated with this house. And if we’re going by that, then I think we gotta link up Slytherin with Islam: if you’re in you’re family; if you’re not in but in-adjacent you’ll get second-class treatment that’s still pretty fair; if you’re out then you’re out and all bets are off.
Now obviously there’s lots of caveats here, like none of these “religions” I’ve picked out are really one single thing but rather multiple traditions and practices some of which don’t fit the pattern above well. Look, I get it. I’m just trying to point at something like the core thing associated with each of these religions that may be deviated from by various branches, e.g. Quakers are obviously Hufflepuffs, atheist are I guess Ravenclaws, LDS is probably Slytherin based on my reasoning above, etc.. This is just meant to be fun and sorry if I offended anyone who comes across this.