Four Banners, One Name

One school. Four houses. Let the centuries decide. Set four banners on these stones - let centuries decide Which house will teach our castle how to face the dark outside. Give me the hearts that choose the flame when safer souls withdraw; My lion will go first through fear and make these towers roar. Let others seek the highest mind, the oldest blood, the truest hand - I wager all our future on the brave who choose to stand. Raise my tower past the clouds, where questions cut like stars; A mind can find the hidden door no sword can force apart. Let lions charge and serpents scheme; let patient badgers prove - The age belongs to those who learn, then teach the world to move. My house will make these halls renowned where thought outlives the crown; The brightest name in Hogwarts will be wisdom handed down. Four banners, one name, Four answers, one flame. Rise, every house, and prove your fire - But none stands taller than these spires. Four banners, one name: Hogwarts will remain. Not every hand should hold the keys to arts that shape the night; I choose old blood and sharpened will, heirs certain of their birthright. Call caution pride, call cunning cold; I will not yield my claim. My heirs will turn survival into power, rank, and name. Yet mark me: every dungeon arch, each secret stair and stone Proclaims that I helped raise a school no house could build alone. Bring me the steady, loyal hearts, the hands prepared to stay; No child must prove a grander birth before I teach the way. While lions leap and eagles climb and serpents seek renown, My house will keep the hearth alive when louder boasts die down. Let others race to crown their heirs; I’ll build what time can trust: A school is only truly great when all may rise with us. Four banners, one name, Four answers, one flame. Rise, every house, and prove your fire - But none stands taller than these spires. Four banners, one name: Hogwarts will remain. We crossed our wills like winter blades and crowned four different fires; Yet every stair and arch we raised belongs to all our heirs. We built more than a victory, more than a founder’s fame; Whichever banner rules an age, the castle bears one name. Four banners, one name, No single house can claim The whole of what our hands created - Four rival strengths, forever braided. Four banners, strive for fame; The school outlives our names. Rise, every house, and prove your fire - Together, you uphold the spires. Four banners, one name: Hogwarts will remain.