books-and-shadows:

Slytherin won the house cup 6 years in a row before Harry started Hogwarts and then Gryffindor kept winning after that and I just find it really unrealistic that in 11 years Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw never won it once. If the teachers award house points just for answering questions correctly in class, it seems strange that the house that values intelligence and the house that values hard work above everything else never got enough points to win the cup at least once in all that time