![]() ![]() I’m going to start going through and answering more Sortings on the pottermoreanalysis subblog in the coming days, then I’ll start trying to figure out Google Docs. Thus concludes my analysis of data from the Beta. (The same goes for Hufflepuff, but probably to a lesser extent.) The symbolism here follows the answer patterns. They’re concerned with doing the right thing. Meanwhile, Gryffindors are on the side of right. It’s also sinister and associated with Dark Magic - Slytherin. So left-ness is weird and creative - it’s Ravenclaw. One book I read about left-handedness said that left-handed people are more likely to be non-neurotypical it’s had connotations of evil for a long time, and everybody probably knows about left-handed kids getting forced to switch writing hands ~50 years ago in US schools.) Left-handedness (and the direction left in general) has associations with creativity, oddity, unusualness, and worse connotations (latin: sinistra, where we get sinister. For Hatstalls, ½ Ravenclaw/Hufflepuff stalls went each way the Gryffindor/Slytherin Hatstall to get this went right. Ravenclaws go left 14/20 times, 60%. On the contrary, Gryffindors go right 12/19 times, 63%. Overall, more people generally pick left than right I’m not sure why. This is one that is actually easy and well-distributed: Slytherin and Ravenclaw pick left, Gryffindor right, and Hufflepuffs are pretty evenly split on the whole left/right deal (7:6 for Hufflepuff.) ![]()
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