i completely agree with you that its something thats existed well before harry potter, but it is what introduced the concept of house cups to a lot of non-brit influenced areas.
also arcane's entire house cup concept takes direct inspiration from harry potter's sorting method and the 4 houses basically boil down to studiousness, friendliness, bravery, and "evil" competitiveness. the parallels to HP are pretty damn obvious.
Re: arcane dom leadership
i completely agree with you that its something thats existed well before harry potter, but it is what introduced the concept of house cups to a lot of non-brit influenced areas.
also arcane's entire house cup concept takes direct inspiration from harry potter's sorting method and the 4 houses basically boil down to studiousness, friendliness, bravery, and "evil" competitiveness. the parallels to HP are pretty damn obvious.