Explain why you feel misplaced in your current House!
I was never ‘disappointed’ to be sorted into Gryffindor at the beginning, just a little surprised because you can see from the votes on my application, it looks like people just took a look at the first few votes and then just followed suit in slapping on a Gryffindor! vote themselves, their sigtags and then off to sort all the others in time to get Top Sorter points. I know for a fact that a lot of people do just follow suit in votes here and my application was pretty lengthy compared to the rest that week so it felt like a lot of people didn’t even bother to read all of the writing I put into it. If I was disappointed with anything, it would probably have been mostly that.
However, like I said, the prefect at that time tangerinesidhe was honestly the most awesome prefect I’ve ever had and having her head the house made me eventually forget my misgivings and enjoy being a Gryffindor. siriusmatters was the next prefect and in the same way, she was also an awesome leader for the house and between the two of them, I honestly felt encouraged to participate in various activities all over to rake in more points (I call this enthusiasm to participate as “house pride”). I also felt comfortable with my housemates as well.
Stuff happened before the New Year came, a lot of people left, I’m not going to get into that drama scene so I sort of withdrew myself from HiH (except for my charms club and flourish modding). I joined TG during that time and had fun in it for a few months and the game sort of made me forget about HiH, but right now, I look at the common room and just go “huh?” Usually the house all moves in one direction and I’m not feeling like I’m moving with them. I honestly don’t get this whole pirate thing or even how the hell it got linked to Gryffindor. I wouldn’t want to be associated as a dirty, outlawed sailor and while people may say “it’s just for fun!” it’s obviously not that way with all the little pirate jingles I see everywhere. I also don’t feel motivated to participate in any big activity anymore. A lot of the trivia that goes on, the graphics contests or the writing ones, I could easily join in and I used to but... now I just scroll past those entries and then close the window.
Lastly, HiH is an Internet community, an interest-based community meant to give its members a place to have fun. And, I’m not having the fun I originally had anymore in Gryffindor. I can’t put it in any simpler terms then that.
I'll answer them one by one.
I was never ‘disappointed’ to be sorted into Gryffindor at the beginning, just a little surprised because you can see from the votes on my application, it looks like people just took a look at the first few votes and then just followed suit in slapping on a Gryffindor! vote themselves, their sigtags and then off to sort all the others in time to get Top Sorter points. I know for a fact that a lot of people do just follow suit in votes here and my application was pretty lengthy compared to the rest that week so it felt like a lot of people didn’t even bother to read all of the writing I put into it. If I was disappointed with anything, it would probably have been mostly that.
However, like I said, the prefect at that time
Stuff happened before the New Year came, a lot of people left, I’m not going to get into that drama scene so I sort of withdrew myself from HiH (except for my charms club and flourish modding). I joined TG during that time and had fun in it for a few months and the game sort of made me forget about HiH, but right now, I look at the common room and just go “huh?” Usually the house all moves in one direction and I’m not feeling like I’m moving with them. I honestly don’t get this whole pirate thing or even how the hell it got linked to Gryffindor. I wouldn’t want to be associated as a dirty, outlawed sailor and while people may say “it’s just for fun!” it’s obviously not that way with all the little pirate jingles I see everywhere. I also don’t feel motivated to participate in any big activity anymore. A lot of the trivia that goes on, the graphics contests or the writing ones, I could easily join in and I used to but... now I just scroll past those entries and then close the window.
Lastly, HiH is an Internet community, an interest-based community meant to give its members a place to have fun. And, I’m not having the fun I originally had anymore in Gryffindor. I can’t put it in any simpler terms then that.