Best explanation for that I can come up with is that it’s a brown crow.
Or a Brown Necked Raven.
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The author of Harry Potter has specified each house’s symbol: Gryffindor’s is a lion, Hufflepuff’s is a badger, Ravenclaw’s is an eagle and Slytherin’s is a snake.
Also, if you’re still wondering about the naming of the houses, they’re actually named after – and by – their respective founders: Godric Gryffindor, Helga Hufflepuff, Rowena Ravenclaw and Salazar Slytherin. When you look at it like that, I think their choices for their houses’ symbols are rather justified. For a ridiculous example, can’t someone be named John Cat and actually like dogs best?
If you’re talking about why the author decided to go with that, I can only slide a little something called “artistic liberty” your way. That, and lame excuses such as, but not limited to, “Well… It’s her book.” With an addition of a noncommittal shrug if you feel up for it.
… On an unrelated note, my phone actually considers Slytherin and Hufflepuff actual words, but not the other two houses.
Talk about taking sides. 
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Of course, It is no evil, is cunning. Same evil is pick a look that make other do it. It is morality gray. Maybe that lock is the key to stopped a great villain. And you don’t know how lock picking so you have to manipulate someone forthe great good .
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Also, people from the same house can have varying traits and make different choices. Just look at the main characters of the series – all three come from the same house, but have very contrasting personalities. One’s house does not determine one’s entire being.
Furthermore, the door post is just a small example made for fun. 
It certainly does not cover all the possibilities of the house members’ choices.
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I think the real problem with this sort of quiz is that Hermione will end up in Ravenclaw, and Neville will end up in Hufflepuff. My assumption was always that the Hat chooses the house that the student actually wants to get into (subconsciously, at least), rather than the one that necessarily fits their personality best.
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Totally agree, Harry was Slytherin material but the bad view he received from Ron and Hadgrid make them change. Harry vision at the end of saga changed and he saw all houses as neutral, it’s the people who are good or bad not The house itself.
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I wouldn’t have said Harry was “Slytherin material” myself; he does lack the ambition, and is probably more “brave” than “cunning”. Then again, he is up against Crabbe and Goyle, who are as cunning as goldfish. And as brave, intelligent, AND hard-working as goldfish. Forget the House; how did either of them even get into Hogwarts, anyway?
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They made Draco’s dad smuggle them in, and once they were in, they tricked Dumbledore into keeping them.
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Their parents are Death Eaters, so because Ambiguous Evil.
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Sort hat was about sending him to Slytherin, so that’s make him Slytherin material. Except if you believe Hat was lying about it.
I honestly think everyone is a mix of all four of the houses. Usually, someone just has a slightly bigger tendency towards a specific one. In all reality, I might be something like
35% Ravenclaw
25% Gryffindor
20% Slytherin
20% Hufflepuff
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Oh, I’m sure he could have done very well in Slytherin (aside from the fact that Snape would still have hated him); the Hat was trying to find out whether he wanted to go or not.
Hat: Do you want to go to Slytherin?
Harry: No! They’re all evil!
Hat: Judging others before you meet them? Gryffindor it is, then.
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No , no you are forgetting all the Slytherin suits you conversation. Not only in first game, Hat has same conclusion in second and in other books. Harry was even worried about that . So certainly a Slytherin material same as Hermione was Ravenclaw material and Neville Hufflepuff. At the end result was based in child desire. But that’s not change the fact another House would be fitting too
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Oh yeah, I forgot he got to talk to the Hat again. But, yes, it was certainly more his choice than the Hat’s.
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The Hat is basically a Guidance counsellor.
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Interestingly enough, Neville was actually a unique exception of this. To quote his Harry Potter Wiki page,
Neville felt intimidated by Gryffindor’s reputation for bravery. During the Sorting ceremony, he silently argued for a long time to be placed in Hufflepuff, but the Sorting Hat won in the end, and Sorted him into Gryffindor.
I do agree that one’s own personal choice does indeed have a great impact on the Sorting Hat’s decision. To quote Dumbledore in the second book,
“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
As for Harry, I think despite the Hat having considered him for each of the four houses, it did lean more towards Slytherin than the rest. This was evident in his actual Sorting process and what the Hat said when Harry put it on again in the second book, and it was addressed by Dumbledore (in the same scene the above quote appeared) when Harry confessed to being insecure about his similarities with Tom Riddle and, in turn, his compatibility with the Slytherin house.
“Listen to me, Harry. You happen to have many qualities Salazar Slytherin prized in his hand-picked students. His own very rare gift, Parseltongue — resourcefulness — determination — a certain disregard for rules,” he added, his mustache quivering again. “Yet the Sorting Hat placed you in Gryffindor. You know why that was. Think.”
“It only put me in Gryffindor,” said Harry in a defeated voice, “because I asked not to go in Slytherin…”
This exchange was shortly followed by Dumbledore stating that Harry’s choice alone already made him different from Riddle, and that bit about our choices showing who we are.
Why, it is due to the simple fact that they’re wizards, of course. (And that they reside in Great Britain.)
This might help with understanding how Hogwarts selects their students.
I think the “why Slytherin” question in their case is heavily affected by personal choice as well, considering the influences they were subjected to during childhood. They, and most if not all children of Death Eaters, were practically raised to side with Slytherin, and considering how strongly their parents indoctrinated this, Crabbe and Goyle’s case is no longer that much of a surprise.
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Have you changed?
https://forum.choiceofgames.com/t/what-hogwarts-house-are-you-in/2289
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Mhmm 
quite a bit, I’d say.
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