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* Creature of Habit
* Rules Lawyer
* Pacifist

## Ravenclaw

* Awesome, but Impractical: Unlike in the other three houses, the door of the Ravenclaw common room doesn't demand official passwords, but answers on the fly to randomly generated philosophical questions. Naturally, this makes one's chance to enter heavily dependant on luck and personal factors, to the point that, according to Luna, students sometimes remain trapped outside, puzzled by particularly difficult questions, until someone else comes up with a valid answer. Also, as Ms. McGonagall demonstrates, this has the additional consequence that any person external to the house can enter the room if they happen to be brainy enough.
* Academic Alpha Bitch: The worst of Ravenclaws are prone to backstabbing one another if it means higher rankings amongst themselves.
* Adaptation Dye-Job: The house colours, at least, were changed from the original blue/bronze to blue/silver because the gold/yellow for Gryffindor and Hufflepuff was so similar that, from a visual design perspective, it was more balanced for the house to share a colour with Slytherin.
* Adaptation Species Change: In the films, Ravenclaw's Animal Motif is changed from an eagle to a raven.
* Animal Motifs: Wise, noble Ravenclaw is associated with wise noble eagles.
* The Beautiful Elite: Not only are Ravenclaws very intelligent, but also many Ravenclaws are very attractive. Notably Harry, Ron and Ginny (and Neville, going by the film's canon) all get love interests from Ravenclaw.
* Bunny-Ears Lawyer: As Pottermore points out, Ravenclaw may be filled with geniuses, but a lot of those geniuses are pretty darn weird (Uric the Oddball, for example, was sorted into Ravenclaw). Of course, there's Luna, too.
* Cloudcuckoolander: In addition to being witty, some Ravenclaws are also highly eccentric—such as Uric the Oddball, who wore a jellyfish for a hat and drove himself insane listening to Fwooper song for three months.
* Color-Coded for Your Convenience: Their heraldic colours are blue and bronze, meant to represent the sky and an eagle's feathers respectively.
* Cynic–Idealist Duo: The Cynics to Hufflepuffs Idealist. Though not as dark as Slytherin, when it comes to intentions. Ravenclaw is still quite competitive when it comes to knowledge. Some would even double-cross, just to get the best grades which clearly shows, not all birds flock together.
* Ditzy Genius: The description on Pottermore states that one of its lesser-known values is eccentricity, and has graduated quite a few Ditzy Geniuses over the years.
* Fatal Flaw: Pride, which in turn, leads to them backstabbing one another to get what they want.
* Four-Element Ensemble: Represents Air among the four Houses, reflected by their most prominent staff member, Filius Flitwick, who is first introduced teaching students to make feathers fly, and their common room being in one of the highest towers.
* Hufflepuff House: Though not as bad as the Trope Namer. Harry's love interest Cho and Honorary True Companion Luna do give the house a bit of focus.
* Ironic Name: *Raven*claw, the house that values wit and intelligence like the titular bird, is associated with an *eagle*. Why? Because eagles have black (raven) claws, whilst ravens' claws are actually grey.
* Koan: Their common door only allows entry by answering a riddle, and the only two heard in the books are both metaphysical questions of this kind.
* Meaningful Name: *Raven*claw values wit and intelligence. Ravens and other corvids are among the smartest birds in the animal kingdom, so it's not surprising that they would be in the House name.
* Nerds Are Sexy: In addition to their brains, a lot of Ravenclaw students are said to be good-looking.
* Noble Bird of Prey: Their mascot is an eagle.
* Out of Focus: Given that we now have a Hufflepuff protagonist in Newt Scamander, Ravenclaw is the least prominent House on the franchise. Luna is the Ravenclaw with the biggest role but she’s not introduced until the fifth book.
* Riddle Me This: How to get into their common room, as compared to other houses, which use passwords. Ravenclaw employs an unconventional variation of the trope, however, because their riddle system seems to value verbal intelligence at least as much as true knowledge or abstract thinking: the riddles themselves are unsolvable koans, and as Ms. McGonagall shows in the last book, any equally witty wordplay is enough to make a correct answer.
* The Smart Guy: The majority of Ravenclaw's residents tend be the more academically capable students at Hogwarts.
* The Spock: Members of Ravenclaw House tend to be very logical and analytical, sometimes to the point of appearing cold and unfeeling, but they aren't so rigid that they'll throw the rest of the school under the bus.
* Teen Genius: Since Ravenclaw values wisdom and cleverness, the brightest academics of Hogwarts are often from the Ravenclaw house.