"Welcome to Hogwarts,"
"The start-of-term banquet will begin shortly, but before you take your seats in the Great Hall, you will be sorted into your houses. The Sorting is a very important ceremony because, while you are here, your house will be something like your family within Hogwarts. You will have classes with the rest of your house, sleep in your house dormitory, and spend free time in your house common room.
The four houses are called Gryffindor, Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, and Slytherin. Each house has its own noble history and each has produced outstanding witches and wizards."
- Professor McGonagall,
Chapter 7, page 114
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
The Housing System is a large part of Hogwarts. Quidditch teams were constituted between house members and many other things as quoted by Professor McGonagell above.
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