p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-indent: 36pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"span class="mceItemHidden"I guess I should start with span class="mceItemHidden"span class="hiddenSpellError" style="border-bottom: 2px solid red; cursor: default;"hi/span/span! I'm Violet Winter, I'm 16 and I am a 6th year here at span class="hiddenSpellError" style="border-bottom: 2px solid red; cursor: default;"Ilvermorny/span school of Witchcraft and Wizardry. I span class="hiddenGrammarError" style="border-bottom: 2px solid green; cursor: default;"was assigned/span to tell you first years about this school before the sorting./span/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"span class="mceItemHidden"We have four houses, Wampus, Horned Serpent, Pukwudgie, and Thunderbird. I'm in Wampus, and we tend towards the warriors and the body, our mascot is obviously a Wampus, which is basically a span class="hiddenGrammarError" style="border-bottom: 2px solid green; cursor: default;"six legged/span big cat, almost like a cougar. Thunderbird wants the adventurers. It represents the soul. Horned Serpent is the scholars and the mind, and Pukwudgie is the healer and the heart. /span/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"span class="mceItemHidden"No, the houses do not directly correlate to Hogwarts back in England. Sure some have similarities, such as Wampus is similar to span class="hiddenSpellError" style="border-bottom: 2px solid red; cursor: default;"Gryffindor/span and Horned Serpent is like span class="hiddenSpellError" style="border-bottom: 2px solid red; cursor: default;"Ravenclaw/span, but they are not the same, they do not go off of your traits, they go off of what you best represent, the mind, the heart, the soul, or the body. /span/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"span class="mceItemHidden"No, we do not use a hat to read your mind and sort you, we have you stand in front of the statues of each house mascot and they will react if they want you. It's scary span class="mceItemHidden"span class="hiddenGrammarError" style="border-bottom: 2px solid green; cursor: default;"to be/span/span a little span class="hiddenGrammarError" style="border-bottom: 2px solid green; cursor: default;"11 year old/span to go up and get judged by giant wooden statues, I know, but it's even more terrifying when more than one reacts at once. Yeah, it can happen, and it happened to me. All four of the statues reacted at the same time and I screamed. It's once in a decade, and trust me, no one was expecting all of them to react. When more than one reacts, you chose where you want span class="hiddenGrammarError" style="border-bottom: 2px solid green; cursor: default;"to be/span. It's a decision that will shape your life for the next 7 years. /span/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"span class="mceItemHidden"Why did I pick Wampus? Because I felt that I best fit the terms. Warrior and body. My twin sister is in Pukwudgie and my twin brother is in Horned Serpent. What? Oh yeah, we're triplets. Yeah, I suppose it's cool. Their names? Vincent and Velvet, but call Velvet 'Juliet', other wise she might strangle you. No joke. Do you blame her with a name like Velvet? /span/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"span class="mceItemHidden"You are more than welcome to seek us for guidance. If you span class="mceItemHidden"span class="hiddenGrammarError" style="border-bottom: 2px solid green; cursor: default;"are sorted/span/span into Thunderbird, look for Jack Archer, he will help you. He's my boyfriend, and I trust he will be more than happy to help you. If he span class="hiddenSpellError" style="border-bottom: 2px solid red; cursor: default;"sighs/span and asks you if I sent you, grin and nod. He can't refuse to help span class="hiddenGrammarError" style="border-bottom: 2px solid green; cursor: default;"someone that/span I sent. Or you can just fake some tears and say you miss your parents, he can't turn away a poor first year who is crying. /span/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"span class="mceItemHidden"Unlike Hogwarts, your house does not span class="mceItemHidden"decide/span where you sit at meals or who your friends are, it just determines your classes and your sleeping arrangements. However, the first two weeks, you'll sit with your houses. Just to get acquainted. Trust me, you will most likely have more friends from other houses than your own. Thunderbird and Wampus commonly have classes together, while Horned Serpent and Pukwudgie have them together. It span class="hiddenGrammarError" style="border-bottom: 2px solid green; cursor: default;"might not be/span the best idea to have the Thunderbirds and Wampus together, because when you have them together, someone is probably going to get hurt. The Pukwudgie aren't happy when we get hurt./span/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"span class="mceItemHidden"If you have questions, feel free to look for me or Juliet. I mean, we're identical, I'll just be wearing a Wampus robe, not a Pukwudgie one. /span/span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Be free my children! Go get sorted! Become one of us!/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"span class="mceItemHidden"We have four houses, Wampus, Horned Serpent, Pukwudgie, and Thunderbird. I'm in Wampus, and we tend towards the warriors and the body, our mascot is obviously a Wampus, which is basically a span class="hiddenGrammarError" style="border-bottom: 2px solid green; cursor: default;"six legged/span big cat, almost like a cougar. Thunderbird wants the adventurers. It represents the soul. Horned Serpent is the scholars and the mind, and Pukwudgie is the healer and the heart. /span/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"span class="mceItemHidden"No, the houses do not directly correlate to Hogwarts back in England. Sure some have similarities, such as Wampus is similar to span class="hiddenSpellError" style="border-bottom: 2px solid red; cursor: default;"Gryffindor/span and Horned Serpent is like span class="hiddenSpellError" style="border-bottom: 2px solid red; cursor: default;"Ravenclaw/span, but they are not the same, they do not go off of your traits, they go off of what you best represent, the mind, the heart, the soul, or the body. /span/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"span class="mceItemHidden"No, we do not use a hat to read your mind and sort you, we have you stand in front of the statues of each house mascot and they will react if they want you. It's scary span class="mceItemHidden"span class="hiddenGrammarError" style="border-bottom: 2px solid green; cursor: default;"to be/span/span a little span class="hiddenGrammarError" style="border-bottom: 2px solid green; cursor: default;"11 year old/span to go up and get judged by giant wooden statues, I know, but it's even more terrifying when more than one reacts at once. Yeah, it can happen, and it happened to me. All four of the statues reacted at the same time and I screamed. It's once in a decade, and trust me, no one was expecting all of them to react. When more than one reacts, you chose where you want span class="hiddenGrammarError" style="border-bottom: 2px solid green; cursor: default;"to be/span. It's a decision that will shape your life for the next 7 years. /span/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"span class="mceItemHidden"Why did I pick Wampus? Because I felt that I best fit the terms. Warrior and body. My twin sister is in Pukwudgie and my twin brother is in Horned Serpent. What? Oh yeah, we're triplets. Yeah, I suppose it's cool. Their names? Vincent and Velvet, but call Velvet 'Juliet', other wise she might strangle you. No joke. Do you blame her with a name like Velvet? /span/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"span class="mceItemHidden"You are more than welcome to seek us for guidance. If you span class="mceItemHidden"span class="hiddenGrammarError" style="border-bottom: 2px solid green; cursor: default;"are sorted/span/span into Thunderbird, look for Jack Archer, he will help you. He's my boyfriend, and I trust he will be more than happy to help you. If he span class="hiddenSpellError" style="border-bottom: 2px solid red; cursor: default;"sighs/span and asks you if I sent you, grin and nod. He can't refuse to help span class="hiddenGrammarError" style="border-bottom: 2px solid green; cursor: default;"someone that/span I sent. Or you can just fake some tears and say you miss your parents, he can't turn away a poor first year who is crying. /span/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"span class="mceItemHidden"Unlike Hogwarts, your house does not span class="mceItemHidden"decide/span where you sit at meals or who your friends are, it just determines your classes and your sleeping arrangements. However, the first two weeks, you'll sit with your houses. Just to get acquainted. Trust me, you will most likely have more friends from other houses than your own. Thunderbird and Wampus commonly have classes together, while Horned Serpent and Pukwudgie have them together. It span class="hiddenGrammarError" style="border-bottom: 2px solid green; cursor: default;"might not be/span the best idea to have the Thunderbirds and Wampus together, because when you have them together, someone is probably going to get hurt. The Pukwudgie aren't happy when we get hurt./span/span/p
p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"span class="mceItemHidden"If you have questions, feel free to look for me or Juliet. I mean, we're identical, I'll just be wearing a Wampus robe, not a Pukwudgie one. /span/span/p
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p dir="ltr" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; background-color: transparent; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"Be free my children! Go get sorted! Become one of us!/span/p