North American wizarding school Ilvermorny's 4 Sorting Houses reportedly revealed
 

Apparently the Houses for North American wizarding school Ilvermorny were leaked through Pottermore's JavaScript page coding, and can be read below.

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It seems that there will eventually be some kind of Sorting page or quiz to see what school House students and even Harry Potter fans belong into, judging by the coding. Here's what it says.

It can be assumed what a Horned Serpent looks like, or even what it represents (sounds suspiciously like Slytherin) and even the Thunderbird. The Wampus and Pukwudgie may be lesser known, but here are some descriptions of them:

It's unknown which American wizards and witches from Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them were Sorted into what Houses, and that includes characters like Tina and Queenie Goldstein (played by Katherine Waterston and Alison Sudol respectively), Percival Graves (Colin Farrell) and President Seraphina Picquery (Carmen Ejogo).

Undoubtedly as the URL/link for this quiz does exist, at some point probably toward the opening of the first Fantastic Beasts movie it will go live so fans can take the test. Thanks to Ian for sending the email tip over earlier today.

Do of course note that while the Houses are listed on the coding page, it does not mean that Pottermore's official team or J.K. Rowling have confirmed them, yet, so for now they can be regarded as strongly-backed rumors.

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ASDFASDFASDFASDF!!!! :x3::x3::x3:

*IS SCREECHING*

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I'm SO FREAKING Happy!

I am loving the house names















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:lmao: and I thought Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, Slytherin, and Gryffindor were weird names :lmao: :lmao:

I'M SO EXCITED, YO

ScrEAMING

I'M SO EXCITED FOR THIS NEW INFO :whaa: :whaa:

I'm wondering this too. I was hoping that Ilvermorny's houses would be based around different traits from Hogwarts ones, just for some variety, but based on the mascots they seem like they might be more equivalent. Except for the pukwudgie, that one seems like it could be different :hmm: :knut:

well I guess it depends on how detailed Jo wanted the houses to be, if it's a minor point in the greater story that is Fantastic Beasts its likely she just made direct equivalents.

I'm kinda hoping she considered these with care and tweaked the sorting to be even more accurate than what we currently have for Hogwarts, as the current ones are a bit lopsided to serve the story she was trying to tell. so far the "sorting" thats the most accurate to me are the ones from the Divergent stories-- which are based on the Hogwarts houses, only more complete in personality profile.

Wait really?

Also wasn't the new sorting on pottermore supposed to be more accurate

This is soo cool!

I snorted at the name Pukwudgie :lmao:

*not sure which you were referring to but* yeah really :D

well a big reason why Pottermore came about was to flesh out the HP world beyond what the books could provide, which it is doing, but with the Sorting its not quite as straightforward or as comprehensive as i would've hoped. theres a lot of extrapolating, of which can be flawed since perception of characters and motivations differ depending on who's reading / analysing. there isnt really a "bible" (for lack of a better word) when it comes to Potter Sorting thats disclosed to the public. Divergent Factions are listed in black and white, then uses it as a foundation to build its storyverse.

going back to Illvermorny sorting, im hoping Jo can correct this so that certain people classified into certain houses wouldnt suffer the stereotyping that occurred during the Potter series (like Slytherins always being bad, Ravenclaws always being bookish etc etc).

As the person that spotted this info, and revealed it to the world, you're welcome ;)

lolz they are soooo gonna start securing the pages man :lmao: anything more you can tease out of it before they lock that thing down into Fort Knox? :xd:

This all started out as an attempt to write an AI with a machine learning algorithm that can reverse engineer the sorting quiz and the wand quiz so that people can "preview" their answers to see what house they get assigned. I saw the unused code while I doing research on how I might make a browser extension to slurp up the answers.

Anyway, I was able to hit the API to get all of the questions/possible answers from the existing quizes. I got an empty response from the API for the Ilvermorny. Empty response sounds like it might be a dead end, but not to a web programmer like me. Ordinarily, I'd expect a "not found" response. So, this means they're probably ready to launch the quiz - just need to add a few things to the database powering the site to open it up to everyone.

As soon as they add the questions to the database, then I can hit the API and get all of the questions and possible answers. Unfortunately, without a few hundred people filling out the quizes and giving me their answers - I can't train the AI to guess the house correctly. :( But at least we could get the questions.

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Also, who wants to bet some butthurt programmer decides to swing a ban hammer at my account on Pottermore? lol

hmmmm... very interesting :hmm:

whats the AI for though? are you gonna mirror the sorting onto one of those other quiz sites?

with Fantastic Beasts coming out in November, they're likely holding off on that Ilvermorny quiz, pretty sure they want to use it as a marketing tool for the movie. If they havent locked it down tight by then, then maybe you might still have some luck grabbing what you need? although i cant see this as anything JKR would approve of ;) (or Warner Bros for that matter)

also a ban of your Pottermore account might probably be the least of your concerns man :lol: (thats not even a thing for your skillset). just be careful, im hoping you dont mean anything malicious, but from a certain perspective this can be seen that way :whut: :sickle:

I had a thought. Are these just the Mascots the Houses use, or are they the actual House names?

I wrote up some more details about what went down here, explains my motivation a bit more:
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But the gist of what the AI was for was simply to try writing an AI.

As for whether or not I "hacked" Pottermore, I certainly didn't. In order to use their website properly, I have to download their JS file. They willingly handed me the information. As for the AI, again - I'm not breaking into their servers to steal code. I am, effectively, making a robot to take their quiz. I'm not worried about legal repercussions. However, they would be within their rights to ban my Pottermore account (I think it would be petty of them, but c'est la vie). :knut:

You're right, it could be mascots. It could also be wand cores. Or, it could be filler text from a programmer that's waiting for the real text. The wording "belong" seems to suggest it's a house.

WHOA. This is so interesting! Yay for more info for the Potter universe! I love itttt :x3:

You raise an interesting point. In the UK, a lot of things are named after animals. What we in the US call a "crosswalk" is called a "zebra crossing" in the UK (get it? stripes). I think that for awhile there, they called police cars "panda cars" too (on account of the whole black/white thing). The UK also has pelican crossings, which are just the controlled cross walks without zebra striping. There are a bunch.

Point is, maybe the houses in Britain are named after people and the houses in the US are named after fantastic beasts. ;)

Took the words out of my mouth, Twinneh.

PUKWUDGIE FOREVER. :lmao: :lmao: :lmao:

Yes. All the THIS.