Have you read the Harry Potter books?

Or at least seen the movies?
If you have, even if you're old like me, I'm sure you've thought about what it would be like to go to the Hogwarts School Of Witchcraft And Wizardry.
But have you thought about which of the school's four houses the Sorting Hat would put you in?
Would you be in Gryffindor like the heroes?
Slytherin like the villains?
Or would you be in one of the also-ran houses...
...the not-quite-as-cool-as-Gryffindor Ravenclaw?
...the difficult-to-take-seriously Hufflepuff?
If you were in Gryffindor, could you possibly stand out alongside the likes of Harry, Ron and Hermione?
If Slytherin, could you do anything to stop Malfoy and his cronies?
Or would it be easier to laugh at their jokes, avoid their wrath and fall in with them?
Would Ravenclaw or Hufflepuff offer you the chance to be a bigger mer-creature in a smaller pond?
Would they change your point of view such that the feud between Gryffindor and Slytherin seemed just an inter-house rivalry, not a battle between good and evil?
Am I thinking about this all too much?

Hurry up with that last book, JK.