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Gryffindor Pride Day

Next celebratedMonday, March 22, 2027

A fan-kept day for the loudest house in the books, set on a date the franchise never scheduled: Pottermore's own house pride days fell in autumn and spring, never March.

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YEARLY DATEMarch 22
OBSERVED INInternationally
CATEGORYFun
SUBCATEGORYFantasy
ORIGIN

Community Origin

FOUNDING ENTITY
Not documented
FIRST OBSERVED
Not documented
HOW THE HOLIDAY CAME TO BE

A date the franchise never put on its calendar.

No founder, announcement, or establishment record for this date has been identified. The observance is kept by readers of the Harry Potter series rather than by the rights holder.

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INTRO

Four fan-made house days sit outside the official calendar

Every March the Harry Potter fan world runs two calendars at once. The rights holder spends the whole month on Hogwarts house pride and never gives a single house a day of its own. Gryffindor Pride Day belongs to the other calendar, the one readers keep.

Pottermore did run house pride weeks with a day per house, and their dates are documented. They fell in autumn, in spring, and in autumn again, and not one of them landed in March. The date fans actually keep was never on the franchise's schedule.

That leaves the loudest house in the books holding an unowned date. Given a free choice, players do not even reach for it first: when Warner Bros. Games released house-selection figures for Hogwarts Legacy's first year, Gryffindor finished second at 29 percent, behind Slytherin.

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ORIGINS

Gryffindor Pride Day history

INTRODUCTION

Organised house pride has a paper trail, and it starts with a competition. Pottermore ran a recurring House Cup between the four houses, and it dressed those contests with a House Pride Week: one day per house, one hashtag per house.

Those hashtags are still the ones in use. Pottermore handed its members #GryffindorPride, #RavenclawPride, #HufflepuffPride and #SlytherinPride, and the fan house days inherited the vocabulary wholesale.

CHAPTER 01

The weeks that were never in March

The first House Pride Week began on a Monday in November 2012, running Hufflepuff, then Ravenclaw, then Slytherin, with Gryffindor last. A second came the following April, timed to the third Pottermore House Cup, and gave Gryffindor the Tuesday.

The autumn 2014 edition is the clearest of the set. Pottermore's own announcement was headlined with its start date, Tuesday, September 16, and that was Gryffindor's day.

The following winter Pottermore took house pride to Orlando instead, running a Proudest House Contest across a weekend at A Celebration of Harry Potter. The prize was a million house points, awarded to whichever house posted the most tagged pride.

CHAPTER 02

Where March 22 shows up

The fan date leaves a thinner trail. Its earliest dated notice found in this research is a Geek and Sundry piece by Steven Ray Morris, published in 2016 on the day itself. It opens by stating flatly that the date is Gryffindor Pride Day for Harry Potter fans, then sends readers off to be sorted.

The article treats the date as settled rather than as news, and that is where the trail stops. No announcement, no founder and no first observance survive on the record for it. By the time a British pop culture site walked through the four days in 2022, it described them simply as dates Harry Potter fans use.

The rights holder went the other way. House pride at Wizarding World is now a whole month, built around a March quiz championship. The four fan days have not moved.

What that looks like from the inside is one post at a time. On the day in 2020, Hafsa Badsha marked it for Creepy Kingdom with a personal essay on what claiming the house had meant across nearly two decades of reading. She ended it simply: Happy Gryffindor Pride!

TIMELINE

Timeline

Pottermore invents House Pride Week

The first week begins on a Monday in November, running Hufflepuff, then Ravenclaw, then Slytherin, with Gryffindor last.

Gryffindor's official day is in September

Pottermore's autumn House Pride Week opens on Tuesday, September 16, the day it assigns to Gryffindor.

House pride goes to Orlando

The Proudest House Contest runs across a weekend at A Celebration of Harry Potter, with a million house points to the house posting the most tagged pride.

March 22 shows up in print

Geek and Sundry marks the day on the day, the earliest dated media notice of the date found in this research.

The four days become fans' own

United By Pop walks through March 20 to 23 as dates Harry Potter fans use rather than an event any organisation runs.

Official house pride becomes a month

Wizarding World runs Hogwarts House Pride from March 4 to 31, built on a weekly quiz championship open all month.

MYTH VS FACT

Common Misconceptions

The myth

March 22 is the official Wizarding World house pride event for Gryffindor.

The truth

The official Hogwarts House Pride is a month-long campaign that assigns no day to any house at all. Even the franchise's own Broadway tie-in moves: the Gryffindor performance of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child fell on March 6 in 2024, nowhere near the fan date.

The myth

Research showed that Gryffindors are the most extraverted house.

The truth

That is the study's title, not its finding. The 2015 paper in Personality and Individual Differences reports that its authors expected but did not find higher extraversion or openness among Gryffindors; the predictions that held were Ravenclaw's higher need for cognition and Slytherin's higher Dark Triad scores.

BY THE NUMBERS

Gryffindor Pride Day by the Numbers

847
Fans in the 2019 sorting study
125 of 217
Participants who wanted and got Gryffindor
8 of 28
Sorting quiz questions shown per taker
23
Gryffindors in the 2015 study sample

WHY THIS DAY MATTERS

Why We Love Gryffindor Pride Day

IDENTITY

Desire, not the quiz, is what makes a house fit.

The 2019 replication in Collabra: Psychology found the link between house and personality small overall, and traced what was left of it to the house people wanted rather than the one the quiz handed them. A day built on claiming a house is doing precisely what the evidence says the sorting on its own does not.

CULTURE

House labels travel far past the books

Fanlore, the fan-history wiki run by the Organization for Transformative Works, records that identifying by Hogwarts house is common even among people outside Harry Potter fandom. The system has generated personality tests, sorting-swap fanfiction, and crossover fanworks that sort characters from other franchises into houses.

COMPETITION

The hero house keeps losing the actual contests

Wizarding World's own championship announcement put it plainly: "Ravenclaw have won our last two championships… Gryffindor, Slytherin, Hufflepuff, you may need to step it up…" Ravenclaw won that one as well, leaving Slytherin second in a field of over a quarter of a million fans.

GET INVOLVED

How to Celebrate Gryffindor Pride Day

EDITOR'S PICK

Get sorted, or check the verdict again

Take the official Sorting Hat Quiz that the whole practice rests on, then compare the result with the house you were hoping for. That gap between wanted and assigned is the thing the research finds most interesting.

POST

Post something of your own under the house tag

Share art, a costume, or a favourite Gryffindor moment under #GryffindorPride. The other three houses have their own tags and their own days in the same week.

MAKE

Make something in the house colours

Pick a craft and finish one thing before the day is out. A scarf knitted in the house colours will outlast a repost.

PLAY

Play the March quiz championship

Wizarding World runs a house quiz championship through March, with correct answers scoring points for your house. Gryffindor has some ground to make up.

BOOK

Book a house pride night at the Cursed Child

The Broadway production runs performances dedicated to each house, with cast-hosted trivia and giveaways at the Lyric Theatre in New York. Check the dates each year, because the Gryffindor night moves.

Test your knowledge

How well do you know Gryffindor Pride Day?

1 / 8

In which month did Pottermore hold its first House Pride Week?

Answer

No. It is an unofficial fan observance with no government proclamation or legal recognition found, so it is a normal working day.

COLOPHON

Sources

How we know what’s on this page. References, not endorsements.

14sources
6primary records
13independently dated
Primary records
Pottermore Insider (via the Internet Archive)2014
Get ready for house pride week, beginning Tuesday, September 16
Pottermore's own announcement of its autumn 2014 house pride week and its start date.
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Wizarding World2023-03-01
How to celebrate your Hogwarts house pride this March
The rights holder's guide to house pride as a month-long March celebration.
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Wizarding World2024-02-28
Get ready for Hogwarts House Pride Month 2024
The 2024 official campaign, running all month with no dates assigned to houses.
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Wizarding World2023-02-27
Get ready for Quiz Championship: Hogwarts House Pride
The championship's four-round format, plus a needling note about Ravenclaw's winning streak.
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Collabra: Psychology2019-07-08
The Science Behind the Magic? The Relation of the Harry Potter Sorting Hat Quiz to Personality and Human Values
An 847-person replication finding small effects driven by the house people wanted.
View source
Personality and Individual Differences2015-09
Harry Potter and the measures of personality: Extraverted Gryffindors, agreeable Hufflepuffs, clever Ravenclaws, and manipulative Slytherins
The first study of the sorting quiz against personality measures, and which predictions failed.
View source
Additional coverage
Pottermore News2012-2015
House Pride archive
Pottermore's house pride announcements quoted at length, with dates, house order and hashtags.
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Geek and Sundry (via the Internet Archive)2016-03-22
Five Reasons To Show Your Pride On Gryffindor Day
A pop-culture site marking the day on the day, in 2016, as if already settled.
View source
United By Pop2022-03-23
It's Hogwarts House Pride Week!
A walk through the four fan house days and which date belongs to which house.
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The Leaky Cauldron2024-03-04
Join the 2024 Hogwarts House Pride celebrations
The 2024 campaign schedule and the turnout for the previous year's championship.
View source
New York Theatre Guide2024-02-01
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child to host 2024 House Pride Nights
The Broadway production's per-house performance dates and what happens at them.
View source
Creepy Kingdom2020-03-21
Gryffindor Pride Day
A fan essay marking the day, on what claiming the house has meant.
View source
Wccftech2024-02-11
Hogwarts Legacy Celebrates First Anniversary with Player Stats
Warner Bros. Games' first-year player data, including the house-selection split.
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Fanlore
Hogwarts Houses
The fan-history wiki on house identity and the fanworks the sorting system produced.
View source
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