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Originally Posted by Psyduck  Nothing.
But in the real world, I would ask why they need to sort at all.
I can see splitting the students into smaller, multi-aged groups, but they would do better to do it at random. |
I think the purpose of splitting students into 'houses' helps to create comaraderie and the concept of working together for a greater good.
It teaches lessons that winning is not everything (only one house can win), while the Slytherin's take the 'us vs them' concept to extremes (preferring pure bloods)... it helps people to get together when previously they would have had nothing else in common.
If Hermione had gone to Ravenclaw - I don't think she would have befriended Harry & Ron. Given their first year reactions to her braininess.... I don't think they would have bonded at all.
in Australia we had 'houses' red, green, blue and gold - and we had house captains as well as a school captain. Perhaps it's a british educational custom that we Aussies had picked up. I don't know that the US have 'houses' as such. If I'm mistaken here - please correct me. Always happy to learn.