When he saw the little badgers accept Hermione into their group and begin running around Black Lake toward the Forbidden Forest,
Su Ming floated above the lake with his arms folded, silently watching Hermione skip about among the crowd as he pondered.
He had sent Hermione to Ravenclaw only to keep her from becoming an idiot. That did not mean he intended to erase her childhood or turn her into a standard Ravenclaw student.
She was Su Ming's student, the future Sorcerer Supreme. A mere Ravenclaw could not serve as the template for her growth. This place was only "middle school"; Hermione would still have to attend "university" in the future.
Ravenclaws' character traits were far too obvious, chiefly their indifference toward others and their obsession with fame and fortune.
The common nature of Eagle House students was just like that of their founder, Lady Rowena Ravenclaw. They always looked coldly upon everything, remained unconcerned with matters outside themselves, and never expected people from other houses to care about them.
The original four founders had been like an expedition party formed by good friends. Gryffindor was the frontline tank, Hufflepuff handled the team's logistics, Slytherin was the magical artillery, and Ravenclaw was the strategist and commander.
Hogwarts' location and name had both been chosen by Ravenclaw. She had once dreamed of a warthog leading her to a cliff beside a lake. She also conceived the ever-changing blueprints for the castle, directing the two men to haul bricks and construct it. Those blueprints were the prototype of today's Ravenclaw Map Crystal.
Those had been happy times, but they had also been very brief.
Only a few years after Hogwarts was built, Gryffindor fell out with Slytherin. Their differences over pure-blood ideology grew increasingly irreconcilable, and Slytherin also constructed several secret chambers