User blog:Graykhakis/House 15

What is House 15?

House 15, is an original Harry Potter House created by a fandom member, who goes by Newton. This house was created in the year of 2018, around the month of November. Since the launch of this house, it has gained around 50+ house members on a variety of social platforms and from around the world. Upon an interview with the founder of the house, Newton states that this type of member count wasn't the original plan, she said, "this whole idea started off as a joke".

When asked what the joke meant, she said, "My friends and I were talking within this fandom groupchat, when this new member joined we simply asked 'What house are you in?'; only for them to respond with '15'. At first we were all confused until we started making a joke out of it, harmlessly asking one another, 'Hey, what house are you in... Uh, 15?'".

From there, the activity and member count kept racking up, but the mischevious friends did not stop there, instead Newton and the original house members kept going. Going as far as to editing the generalized Harry Potter house logo, to their own house colors, which are pink and black. (I am allowed to use this picture with the permission of making this blog).

When questioned on why they didn't make their own house animal as well, she said, "We have decided on a hyena for our house animal, because a hyena best represents our type of joking and behavior when around one another. Along with that, my patronous happens to be a hyena in itself. That art piece is in the making, but for now, we decided to just edit this picture because we still have our own 'cannon' houses".

Newton goes on to explain on how House 15 is like a second family to her, but also says that it's painful to know that most of the members are 5,000+ miles away from her. She also continues to explain how shes amazed that most of the members happen to live in europe, with the exception of a few in asia. Explaining the feeling of almost being connected to all parts of the world in a way, the screen just happens to be the only barrier. However, she  says that they do plan on all meeting up one day at the popular location of Harry Potter land within Universal Studios in their own, custom made, Hogwarts uniforms. And, I don't know about you guys, but that seems like goals to me.

Towards the end of the interview, Newton goes on to say that she is always excited to make other people aware of House 15, and mostly urges them to join. She proceeds to explain it to be a, "community within a community", she states that she always wanted to create a safe, family-like, community for others to join to just make people happy in life. Monitoring the community to make sure no toxic people have joined/activity taking place, she really seems to try to make sure everyone is happy.

And, although she makes everyone swear themselves in, she says that it's just a joke and that if anyone every wishes to leave the little community chat, then they are welcomed to do so. But in all, she says that she's really excited to see where this second family takes her, and she can't wait for more to join.

This community can be found within the app Amino, and is located in the Harry Potter (9 3/4) community. Her username is @newton, and she says that joining is just one message/question away.

And, I'm excited to keep writing updates on the house's milestones~

Current member count : 105

[This will be updated weekly]