Ravenclaw
Ravenclaw is one of the four Houses of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, founded by Rowena Ravenclaw 
. Members of this house are characterized by their wit, learning, and wisdom. Its house colors are blue and bronze, and its symbol is the eagle. The house ghost, who in life was the daughter of the house's founder Rowena Ravenclaw, is the Grey Lady . Many great wizards and witches have come from this house.
Common Room
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.
Unlike the other common rooms in the school, a logical riddle given by a bronze eagle-shaped knocker must be answered to enter. This could prove troublesome as anyone with enough intellect could intrude into the dormitory. However, most wizards and witches do not have much sense of logic, which Ravenclaw noticed herself and decided to use clever riddles instead of passwords.
Traits
- —Rowena Ravenclaw
Ravenclaw House prizes learning, wisdom, wit, and intellect in its members. Thus, many Ravenclaws tend to be academically motivated and talented students.
Ravenclaws have been known to be so competitive when it comes to academic success that they backstab each other, and likely other students, in order to get the top marks, while some have noted that they are so proud of the success of famous members, such as Laverne de Montmorency , that they claim any intelligent wizard as a member of Ravenclaw, such as Bridget Wenlock , who was in fact a Hufflepuff.
Ravenclaw House appears to have little rivalry with the other houses, except in Quidditch (in which case it is most fiercely competitive with Hufflepuff).
Heads of House
- 1 September 2008 - 2 January 2009
- 3 January 2009 - 31 January 2011
- 1 February 2011 - 29 August 2016
- 1 September 2016 - 29 August 2017
- 1 September 2017 - Current
Past Prefects Past and Present
The following students have served as prefect. Year indicates graduating class.
- Eirene Antonopoulos, 2015
- Nell Augustine, 2013
- Kelvin Watkins, 2013
- Ligeia Canterbury, 2011
- Alexandra Carstairs, 2011
- Beatrix Dark, 2011
- Macaulay Nettlebottom, 2011
- Sasha Snow, 2011
- Chloe Harris, 2011
- Evelyn Kelly, 2010
- Elizabeth Edwards, 2010
- Scirey Riven, 2006
- Veronique Rossingnol, 2005
- Amaryllis Woolfolk, 2003
- Lucas Hunter, 1992
- Henry Wentworth, 1993
- Morgana Hollingbury, 1975
- Theodora Kingstreet, 1969
- Herschel Reid, 1961
Undetermined Year
