Can we please stop with the hybrid house sorting? There is no ‘Slytherpuff’ house or a “Gryffinclaw” when/if you did the Pottermore test, you were placed in one of the four houses. Introducing yourself as a hybrid makes it seem like didn’t like the house you were put in. If you were sorted into Hufflepuff but you personally felt more like a Gryffindor, just say that! It’s okay! But the merging of houses really grinds my gears. Sorry for the rant, had to get it off my chest.
Okay I was going to just say this in the replies, but my followers deserve to see this:
I love Hogwarts as much as the next Potterhead. I am a Ravenclaw to the bone.
But as much as I love this school, it is fiction. One woman decided that this is how she would group characters that SHE created, in houses that SHE created, in a school that SHE created. Heck, there are characters in canon that had “hat stalls” and didn’t fit perfectly into one house! Sure, they did eventually either pick or get tossed into one house, but that was probably just so that they had a dorm to sleep in at night.
Fans don’t actually go to Hogwarts. We don’t actually sleep in house dorms at night. All it gives us to have a house is a fandom community. And since this fandom is so big, there are plenty of other Potterheads who identify as hybrid houses, so much that you could probably find fandom communities for “Gryffinclaw” alone.
Another thing (that I have discussed before but I think is relevant):
I know that this “fandom discourse” in no way is comparable to real life issues that minorities face, but lots of the arguments that people would use against me when I identified as “Huffleclaw” were suspiciously similar to the arguments that are used against me now that I identify as nonbinary.
“You were born as a girl, are you saying that being a girl isn’t good enough? It’s okay to not fit into gender roles, but you can’t just make up new genders!” That’s exactly how y’all sound when you complain about “hybrid houses”.
And it's interesting that the author of the Harry Potter books turned out to have an extremely cisnormative view of gender, it’s almost like the stoneset house system is tied to her conservative opinions!