The Hogwarts Houses
So basically, long ago (Medieval-Tudor ages of England) four of the most powerful magically gifted adults gathered together on the border of Scotland and built a school. Their names were Godric Gryffindor, Helga Hufflepuff, Salazar Slytherin, and Rowena Ravenclaw (I know, right?) Anyway, in creating the school, they decided that their students would be sorted to the charge of each of them based off character traits which each founder appreciated. Thus now we have: Even after the founders passed away (or left) the teachers they had trained up under the kept with this tradition, sorting children according to character traits, but there were really not enough of them who were fluent in all subjects, so they started splitting up the teaching between them. Slytherins (who are known for their conniving ways) were prone to teach potions, Hufflepuffs herbology, Ravenclaws charms (which is a science and very complicated to get just right), and Gryffindors usually made the bes...