Here's What The American Hogwarts Houses Are Called In Fantastic Beasts
So, which ones as rubbish as Hufflepuff?
We're only six months away from the long-awaited return to the world of Harry Potter, albeit an incarnation of that world from more than 50 years before he was born, and several thousand miles west in the good old US of A. Nonetheless, Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them is a movie Potter fans are no doubt eager to see - but for once, the filmmakers have the fans at a disadvantage, as for the first time it's a story JK Rowling has written for the big screen first.
However, one enterprising soul has just unveiled a few choice nuggets of info about Fantastic Beasts: the names of the school houses in Ilvermorny, the film's stateside equivalent of Hogwarts.
The Daily Mail report that Federico Ian Cervantez, a software engineer working on the Pottermore website, 'accidentally' (if you say so) discovered the names of the four houses of Ilvermorny are named Horned Serpent, Wampus, Thunderbird and Pukwudgie.
Furthermore, we have descriptions of the creatures from which the houses take their names. Horned Serpent reportedly refers to 'dragon-like serpents with horns and long teeth. They are often associated with or said to control the weather, particularly rain, lightning, and thunder. Magical abilities ascribed to them include shape-shifting, invisibility, and hypnotic powers.'
Wampus, meanwhile, is 'described as some kind of fearsome variation of a cougar' (which presumably means the predatory cat, as opposed to a lascivious older woman), whilst The Thunderbird is 'a very large bird, capable of generating storms and thunder as it flies' (no Tracy Island connection, then).
Finally, the Pukwudgie: 'two-to-three-feet tall and human-shaped, but with a larger nose, ears, and fingers and smooth, grey skin that sometimes glows. Its magical abilities include disappearing and reappearing, partial or complete transformation into a porcupine or cougar, and creating fire.'
Any of that sound as cool as Gryffindor, Slytherin, Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff? You decide.
Fantastic Beasts and Where To Find Them opens in November.