Harry Potter‘s houses have become a significant part of the franchise’s merchandising, but they are often summed up inaccurately as the good ones, the bad ones, and the ones nobody remembers. Based on a real system in some boarding schools, the students are instantly divided between Gryffindor, Slytherin, Ravenclaw, and Hufflepuff. Each is named after a Hogwarts founder and offers a community to individual students. It also serves as an easy way to keep track of them, with each house having a teacher in charge and several designated older students expected to help. Professors McGonagall (Maggie Smith), Snape (Alan Rickman), Flitwick (Warwick Davis), and Sprout (Miriam Margolyes) respectively guide and discipline their students when necessary. The houses also provide dorms and common rooms for the students, divide them into classes, make teams who compete against each other, and much more. Unlike the more realistic counterpart, the Hogwarts houses are divided by personality traits.
