Fantastic Beasts: Names of 'American Hogwarts' houses supposedly revealed by Harry Potter hacker

If true, Hufflepuff has some competition for silliest sounding house

Fans who thought JK Rowling’s wizarding world would come to a close with The Deathly Hallows could not have been further from the truth.

Not only are we getting the eighth part to Harry Potter’s story (via The Cursed Child) but also a new feature-length trilogy: Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them.

Excitement for both is at fever pitch, The Boy Who Lived’s fanbase raking through the Pottermore website to discover as many clues as possible.

Thanks to an interactive quiz on the website, the four houses that make up Ilvermorny - the American version of Hogwarts - have been revealed.

Software engineer Ian Cervantez was playing around with the website’s source code when he made the revelation. Having sorted himself into a Hogwarts house (Ravenclaw), Cervantez went behind the scenes, curiously finding a part that read: “Where do you belong? Horned Serpent, Wampus, Thunderbird or Pukwudgie…”.

Those four names, as you may have guessed, are those of Ilvermorny’s houses. There is no information given alongside the names, but each is based on a creature from Native American mythology.

Horned Serpent deities are normally horned serpents, primarily associated with rain and thunder. A Wampus is a large, ferocious half-women-half-cat. Thunderbird is a supernatural bird of power and strength, and the Pukwudgie is basically a hedgehog-human hybrid.

Whether these will feature extensively in Fantastic Beasts is anyone's guess. In other Harry Potter news, earlier this year, JK Rowling revealed numerous other Hogwarts-esque schools based around the world, including Castelobruxo and Uagadou.