^ Ravens are air creatures too 👀

I guess eagles were better for it?

^^^^ @Pawjet Slytherin's animal is a snake because Salazar Slytherin was a Parseltongue.

The only reason for Ravenclaw animal to be an eagle is that this bird is considered king of the air. All corvidae* are known as very intelligent.

But Why the badger?!

*E.g. ravens, crows, magpies...

^ mhm. Like, why, of all creatures, badgers??

Badgers are not even social. Rather the opposite of social.

Take a ... Meerkat. Or rabbit if it has to be European. Goat. Every animal more social than badger.

... but it is down to earth. In a hole in the ground there lived a...

Hobbit! Hobbit should be the heraldic Hufflepuff mascot!

I've always wondered why the Ravenclaw crest was an eagle too lol

Supposedly the badger is "...an animal that is often underestimated, because it lives quietly until attacked, but which, when provoked, can fight off animals much larger than itself, including wolves."

^ I can appreciate that