Name: Harry Potter: Think Like a Ravenclaw
Uploaded: 2018-11-27T04:52:11.000Z
Duration: 18 min 48 s
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the Ravenclaw identity tends
to get summed up with one word:

But Ravenclaws aren't
the only smart characters

and they don't even always
come across as clever in an obvious way.

“It's very clear that
your bones are not broken.”

So if Ravenclaw is the house
of wisdom, wit and learning,

what is the story telling us
about what it really means to be smart?

“Together, we should cast
ourselves into the future!”

Ravenclaw teaches us
that being a true intellectual means

it's thinking in an alternative way,
getting deep,

and being willing to follow
your mind wherever it leads.

what reading and watching
Harry Potter is all about:

so that you can discover
a whole new magical world.

“Invisible creatures that go in your ears
and make your brain go fuzzy.”

So now let's explore what it takes
to think like a Ravenclaw.

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In the first book,
the Sorting Hat tells us:

“Or yet in wise old Ravenclaw,
If you've a ready mind,

Where those of wit and learning,
Will always find their kind.”

When we think of
Ravenclaw in the abstract,

the image that comes to mind
is brainy, studious, exacting...

While she's unmatched
in cleverness and studiousness,

she doesn't have that Ravenclaw drive
to break down traditional thought categories.

from the first moment you
stepped foot in my class,

I sensed that you did not
possess the proper spirit

Hermione will get perfect marks
in every Hogwarts class

but Luna will question why Hogwarts
doesn't offer a class on nargles.

Rowling has even said that Luna is,
quote, “the anti-Hermione.”

“Hermione's so logical
and inflexible in so many ways

and Luna is likely to believe
ten impossible things before breakfast.”

“Unfortunately, all of my shoes
have mysteriously disappeared…

the common perception of Ravenclaws
is pretty much all wrong.

The Ravenclaws we actually
get to know in the story ---

like Luna Lovegood, Cho Chang,
Gilderoy Lockhart, Moaning Myrtle

but the first adjectives
we might use to describe them

would probably be more like...
imaginative, original,

odd or quirky --
maybe even a little moony.

“I was just sitting in the U-bend,
thinking about death.”

Rowling getting at
by telling us that wise old Ravenclaw

is the house of wit and learning,
only to draw us a portrait of

“I've interrupted
a deep thought, haven't I?

I can see it growing
smaller in your eyes”

Rowling's depiction of Ravenclaws suggests
that the smartest people are truly open-minded

the ones who go beyond the usual boundaries
of categories and assumptions we take for

Thus, the philosophy of Ravenclaw is
to think outside the box.

“My mom always said that
the things we lose

always have a way of
coming back to us in the end.

It's just not always
in the way we expect.”

Luna's style of learning
will go underappreciated

in most structured educational
or professional environments --

is to get at the truth
underneath surface appearances,

“The truth lies buried
like a sentence deep within a book,

So, it doesn't really matter to them
if others don't get it.

And the story suggests
that to be a truly sophisticated thinker,

you have to be okay with the fact that
others may perceive you as

Luna is linked to
the magical creatures, thestrals.

but people avoid them
because they're a bit…”

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