Hello everybody, welcome to another installment in this series. I must apologize for having posted no articles last week, it’s been a rough couple of days, but now we’re back on schedule. As you may have guessed from the title, we will be doing Ravenclaw today, as well as in our next installment. As usual, I highly encourage you to go read the previous posts going over Ravenclaw, as well as the houses we’re going to look at today, Thunderbird and Pukwudgie.

First, let us remember that the average distribution for any given Hogwarts house to be sorted into a given Ilvermorny house is as follows:

Thunderbird: 36.21%

Pukwudgie: 26.81%

Horned Serpent: 23.83%

Wampus: 13.15%

How does Ravenclaw stack up? Here’s a chart to break down exactly that.

Without further ado, let’s get started on the combinations.

Ravenclaw – Thunderbird

(Ravenbird)

The first combination we’re going to be looking at, as is customary by now, is Ravenclaw with the house of Thunderbird. The illustrious, witty, if zany ravens, meet the adventurous, born of the soul Thunderbirds. We have to remember the opposing tendencies of these two houses: while Ravenclaws are usually INTPs, Thunderbirds tend to be ENFP/INFP, with both houses having strong arguments as to why they tend towards either of their values. Thunderclaws are the most common combination for Ravenclaws, with 47,49% of Ravenclaws finding themselves sorted into this house – moreso than any other house.

The mixture they produce is surprising, to say the least. While Thunderbird is neutral towards focus, and Ravenclaw has a slight predilection for Introversion, the combination of them both yields a slight tendency towards Extraversion (21.18% against our base of 18.98%) – stronger than Ravenclaw’s towards Intraversion. At first glance, it makes no sense – how could two houses, neither of which favour Extraversion, result in a type which is definitely extraverted? The answer quickly takes form, however, when we consider the quirky aspect of Ravenclaws. It would make sense that those sorted into the house of adventurers would be one of these eccentric types, who likes to go out into the world and not just lose himself to academics, without disregarding the logistics of it. That the combination of both yields an Intutitive type, as well, should surprise no one – while their predilection isn’t as strong as Ravenclaw’s, it sits at a respectable 3.7% above our base readership, making it a marked trait of the house. Conceptual, ideological people will find themselves very much at home in this house.

Here’s where it gets interesting. Both houses have almost identical strength in their predilection towards Decisionmaking, albeit opposite to each other. While Ravenclaw is strongly a Thinking type (7,11% above our base), Thunderbird is just as strongly a feeling type (7,18% above our base). The person who gets sorted into both these houses, however, has no predilection – they shift ever so slightly towards feeling, but it’s almost imperceptible (a difference of 0.7% to our base), making them almost absolutely neutral. And finally, as was to be expected given that both houses share this trait, the combination is definitely, strongly skewed towards Perception, at a much stronger rate than either house. This means that the capability for improvisation and spontaneity are more defining for this combination than for the standalone houses.

The above results confirm, to me, our hypothesis: the Ravenclaws who get sorted into Thunderbird are the zany, eccentric ones. They are spontaneous, outspoken, adventurous, but also very idealistic. They do not abide by rules, nor do they tie themselves down to literal speech, they let their wit lead them into the unknown and trust themselves to come out victorious. What I find personally most amusing is how many Ravenclaws are also Thunderbirds, which shows that the eccentrics are not a minority by any means within this house.

Here is a chart comparing Thunderclaw values to the individual houses, with the 0 line being our average reader.

Key

Values to the right correspond to predominant Extraversion, Intuition, Thinking, Judging

Values to the left correspond to predominant Introversion, Sensing, Feeling, Perception

The further a value from the middle line, the more predominant it is.

The chart is just as odd as our own Thunderclaws, empowering some values, making middle ground on others, but overall making a defined identity for itself. We could define Thunderclaw as follows:

“Thunderclaw has a slight tendency towards Extroverted Focus, a slight tendency towards Information Intake through Intuition, a neutral tendency towards Decisionmaking and a strong tendency towards Outer Perception”

Our quintessential Thunderclaw would therefore be an ENFP/ENTP.

Ravenclaw – Pukwudgie

(Ravenwudgie)

Ravenwudgies are those Ravenclaws who let their hearts have the ultimate say in their matters. They are, however, in a minority, with only 16% of Ravenclaws being sorted into this house – not only less than average for all houses, but the lowest chance of all houses to be sorted into Pukwudgie.

So who are these hearty scholars? Well, according to our survey, they are quite a particular bunch, and a very interesting one at that. Ravenwudgies take more after Ravenclaws than Pukwudgies when it comes to Focus, being markedly introverted (83,33% against our base of 81,02%) – while Pukwudgie was neutral almost to the point of Extraversion, the combination pushes it further into Introversion that Ravenclaw alone (again, offset by the other houses). We can see how the house of the raven is a wonderfully diverse house, made of many subsets which can be defined by their Ilvermorny combinations (or so we hope, at least).

Their Information Intake is more Pukwudgiean, however. Both of these houses have opposite values, but just as strong in their own direction. While Ravenclaw, ever the intuitives, have a tendency of 4,29% higher Intuition than our base, Pukwudgies lead themselves through Sensing, with a tendency of 4,85% higher Sensing than the base. The mixture is 1,21% stronger Sensing than the base – hardly conclusive, and therefore neutral, but Pukwudgie sets itself minorly through.

And it does so again, in force, in Decisionmaking. While Ravenclaws are firmly into the Thinking field, as said before, Pukwudgie was also firmly rooted in the Feeling side of things, with a tendency of 14,93% higher Feeling than our base. The combination’s tendency towards Feeling is almost as strong, 12,07%, and that says a lot about our Ravenwudgies, and about the variety of people encountered within Ravenclaw. As was to be expected, the heart trumps the mind, and a Ravenwudgie’s values and feelings are stronger than cold logic. Finally, and amazingly, the houses once again come to a clash, with Ravenclaw’s slight tendency towards Perception clashing with Pukwudgie’s strong tendency towards Judging. And the results remove any shade of doubt about our Ravenwudgie friends – they have a tendency towards Judging of 73,33%, against a base of 51,27%. This makes them the combination with the strongest tendency towards Judging out of them all.

So what do we have in the end? We have a group of people who are reserved, contemplative, quiet if you will, but who are warm, personable, with a super strong set of values. They don’t muck about, have an utmost respect for deadlines, prefer to have things planned out, and will act in the name of kindness before they ever act in the name of logic.

Here is a chart comparing Ravenwudgie values to the individual houses, with the 0 line being our average reader.

We could define Ravenwudgie as follows:

“Ravenwudgie has a slight tendency towards Introverted Focus, a neutral tendency towards Information Intake, a very strong tendency towards Decisionmaking through Feeling and a very strong tendency towards Outer Judgment”

We have in our hands, effectively, an ISFJ/INFJ.

Well, that’s it for this post. I hope you enjoyed it, and I apologize once again for the delay. Part 2 should be up by Friday, covering the remaining Ilvermorny houses. See you then!