It seems to me that whatever house your parents were in is where you will end up. I know the Sorting Hat initially wanted to Sort Harry into Slytherin, but that had a lot to do with his connection to Voldemort. He ultimately ended up in the same house as his parents (as all children seem to), Gryffindor.
The Weasleys (Ron and Ginny), and later the offspring of the main characters are all bent out of shape over the Sorting. Ginny is congratulated by her mother for being Sorted to Gryffindor, despite the fact that Ginny already had six brothers in that house (would she have been chastized for ending up in Hufflepuff?). What were the odds she would have ended up somewhere else?
When it comes to Sorting students into their houses, the students seem very concerned about what house they will wind up in. What are these kids so worried about?
Answer
Students are not always sorted into the same house as their family. In Harry, et. al.'s class, for example, the Patil twins were sorted into different houses - Parvati in Gryffindor and Padma is in Ravenclaw.
In Goblet of Fire, Harry makes a comment along those lines, and Hermione gives this very counterexample:
Brothers and sisters usually go in the same Houses, don’t they?” [Harry] said. He was judging by the Weasleys, all seven of whom had been put into Gryffindor.
“Oh no, not necessarily,” said Hermione. “Parvati Patil’s twin’s in Ravenclaw, and they’re identical. You’d think they’d be together, wouldn’t you?”
— Goblet of Fire, chapter 12 (The Triwizard Tournament)
Anyway, if houses did run in the family and two wizards who were in different houses married, which house would their children be in? E.g. Tonks was in Hufflepuff and Lupin was in Gryffindor - where would Teddy go?
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