Ravenclaw

 

Ravenclaw
House information
Founder	Rowena Ravenclaw
House colours	Blue and Bronze
Animal	Eagle[1]
Traits	Intelligence,wit,creativity, and wisdom
Head	Professor Flitwick
Ghost	Grey Lady
Common room	Ravenclaw Tower
Members	Luna Lovegood Cho Chang Myrtle Padma Patil Terry Boot Michael Corner Roger Davies Anthony Goldstein Marietta Edgecombe Gilderoy Lockhart Penelope Clearwater Lisa Turpin Morag MacDougal Mandy Brocklehurst Helena Ravenclaw Filius Flitwick

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"Or yet in wise old Ravenclaw, If you've a ready mind, Where those of wit and learning, Will always find their kind."

—The Sorting Hat^[src]

Ravenclaw is one of the four Houses of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, founded by Rowena Ravenclaw. Members of this house are characterised by their wit, intelligence, creativity, and wisdom. Its house colours are blue and bronze, and its symbol is the eagle.^[2] The house ghost, who in life was the daughter of the house's founder Rowena Ravenclaw, is the Grey Lady^[3]. Many greatwizards and witches have come from this house, including Filius Flitwick and Luna Lovegood.

Ravenclaw roughly corresponds with the element of air.

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Common RoomEdit

Luna: "What do you think, Harry?"

Harry: "What? Isn't there a password? What if you get it wrong?"

Luna: "Well, you have to wait for somebody who gets it right. That way you learn, you see?"

— Luna Lovegood and Harry Potter entering the Ravenclaw common room^[src]

Ravenclaw's founder,Rowena Ravenclaw

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The Ravenclaw common room is in one of the castle's towers and is wide and circular. You have to climb a tight spiral staircase to get there. It has graceful arched windows, and the walls are hung with blue and bronze silks. The domed ceiling is painted with stars, which are echoed in the midnight-blue carpet. Tables, chairs, and bookcases cover the expanse of the floor, and a white-marble statue of Rowena Ravenclaw sits next to the door that leads to the dormitories above. Harry Potter entered the common room in 1998 while searching for clues to the location of one of Voldemort's Horcruxes.

Unlike the other common rooms in the school, a logical riddle given by a bronze eagle-shaped knocker must be answered to enter.^[3] This could prove troublesome as anyone with enough intellect could intrude into the dormitory, as is shown in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows where ProfessorMcGonagall had no trouble entering by answering the riddle correctly. However, Hermione stated in her first year that most wizards and witches do not have much sense of logic, which might be something that Ravenclaw noticed herself and decided to use riddles instead of passwords.

Ravenclaw's symbol

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TraitsEdit

"Wit beyond measure is man's greatest treasure."

—Rowena Ravenclaw^[src]

Ravenclaw House prizes intelligence, creativity, resourcefulness, cleverness, knowledge, and wit in its members.^[2] Thus, many Ravenclaws tend to be academically motivated and talented students. Hermione Granger, an extremely intelligent witch and the top student in her year, was sorted into Gryffindor, though she admitted that the Sorting Hat had seriously considered placing her in Ravenclaw.^[4]

Ravenclaw House appears to have little rivalry with the other houses, except in Quidditch (in which case it is most fiercely competitive with Hufflepuff). Harry Potter believed that they tended to side with Gryffindor in its rivalry withSlytherin, as did Hufflepuff house. However, during the 1994 Triwizard Tournament, Ravenclaws supportedHufflepuff Champion Cedric Diggory over Harry^[5]. This may indicate that Ravenclaw tends to have a closer relationship with Hufflepuff house or simply be a result of the widespread belief that Harry had cheated in order to get his name in the Goblet of Fire. Notably, many Ravenclaws joined Dumbledore's Army and fought in the Battle of Hogwarts along with Gryffindors and Hufflepuffs.

Known RavenclawsEdit

Rowena Ravenclaw

Myrtle

Filius Flitwick

Gilderoy Lockhart(claimed)

Penelope Clearwater

Roger Davies

Marcus Belby

Cho Chang

Marietta Edgecombe

Michael Corner

Terry Boot

Padma Patil

Luna Lovegood

Helena Ravenclaw(ghost)

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Ravenclaw	Period Attending Hogwarts	Notes
Helena Ravenclaw [6]	Founder's time	Daughter of the house founder, Rowena Ravenclaw and house ghost.
Basil Fronsac	Mid-19th century(most likely)	Was Headmaster sometime prior to Armando Dippet
Myrtle [7]	1940s	was killed by Salazar Slytherin's Basilisk and is now a ghost that haunts the Second-floor girls' lavatory.
Filius Flitwick [6]	Unknown	Later became Professor of Charms and Head of Ravenclaw House.
Gilderoy Lockhart [8]		May have been a member of the Ravenclaw Quidditch team, possibly as a Seeker.[8]
Penelope Clearwater	1987 - 1994	A Prefect, dated Percy Weasley in 1992
Roger Davies	1989 - 1996[9]	Chaser and Captain of the Ravenclaw Quidditch team from 1993 to 1995.
Bradley	1990s	Chaser for the Ravenclaw Quidditch team during the 1995–1996 school year.
Chambers		Chaser for the Ravenclaw Quidditch team during the 1995–1996 school year.
Duncan Inglebee		Beater on the Ravenclaw Quidditch team during the 1993–1994 school year.
Felicity Eastchurch		In 1996 she competed in the school Exploding Snap tournament.
Grant Page		Keeper on the Ravenclaw Quidditch team during the 1993–1994 school year.
Hemani Roshan
Jason Samuels		Beater on the Ravenclaw Quidditch team during the 1993–1994 school year.
Jeremy Stretton		Chaser on the Ravenclaw Quidditch team during the 1993–1994 school year.
Latisha Randle		In 1996, she took a pair of shoes that belonged to Luna Lovegood, with the intent of hiding them as a prank.
Marcus Belby		Member of the Slug Club
S. Fawcett
Cho Chang	1990 - 1997	Seeker for the Ravenclaw Quidditch team from at least 1993 to 1997; member of Dumbledore's Army. Harry Potter's love interest in 5th year.
Eddie Carmichael
Marietta Edgecombe		Member of Dumbledore's Army (betrayed DA to Dolores Umbridge).
Anthony Goldstein	1991 - 1998	A Prefect and member of Dumbledore's Army.
Kevin Entwhistle
Lisa Turpin
Mandy Brocklehurst
Michael Corner		Member of Dumbledore's Army. Dated Ginny Weasley and later Cho Chang.
Morag MacDougal
Padma Patil		A Prefect and member of Dumbledore's Army, though incorrectly placed in Gryffindor in the films.
Stephen Cornfoot
Su Li
Terry Boot		Member of Dumbledore's Army
Andrew	1992 - 1993	Dueling Club member.
Rebecca
Luna Lovegood	1992 - 1999	Member of Dumbledore's Army and close friend of Harry Potter, Ron Weasley, Hermione Granger, Neville Longbottom and Ginny Weasley.
Orla Quirke	1994 - 2001
Stewart Ackerley