Have we never had a Hogwarts house debate?

[ninety6tears.livejournal.com]

Apologies if some of you aren't Harry Potter fans, but seeing as part one of Deathly Hallows hits the US tomorrow and almost everyone is talking about it, I thought this would be a fitting day to don the Hogwarts Galactic Fleet Academy Sorting Hat (Sorting...helmet?)

For those not magically initiated, Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry has a rather controversial way of sorting students into houses, in which students put on a very old stinky talking hat, the hat tells them based on personality traits (or other arbitrary factors) what house they should live in, thus determining their entire social life both throughout their schooling but probably during their adult lives, all in a matter of seconds. I have a feeling spunky young Kara would tell Dumbledore this is major B.S., but that's the way it is.

The houses are these:

Gryffindor, valuing courage, bravery, loyalty, nerve and chivalry.
Ravenclaw, valuing intelligence, creativity, learning, and wit.
Hufflepuff, valuing hard work, tolerance, loyalty, and fair play.
And Slytherin house values ambition, cunning, leadership, resourcefulness (bonus points if you have pure wizard blood).

Feel free to discuss away in comments how much Kara would kick ass at Quidditch, what Lee's best subject at Hogwarts would be, etc. But EVERYONE LOVES A POLL, so:

[Poll #1645886]

Comments

[ecstaticdance.livejournal.com]

Hufflepuff - I've always see them as good hearted and diligent and a bit dim - and if there's one thing Lee isn't, it's dim!

I don't know about dim. Not cutting intelligence, but not dim.

But anyways, I agree that Hufflepuff is not a fit I could ever see for Lee. They're so affable. He's so... prickly.

Anyways.

[elzed.livejournal.com]

Let's agree on not cutting intelligence... ;)

And yes, terribly goodnatured and not prickly!

[callmeonetrack.livejournal.com]

Neville really should have been a hufflepuff.

[elzed.livejournal.com]

Exactly!

Although he is phenomenally brave, so I can see why he made Gryffindor...

[callmeonetrack.livejournal.com]

And there is that whole "there but for the grace of God go I" thing he has with Harry...where he was almost the one picked or whatever. (I thought that was a really intriguing throwaway plot thread actually, and wish there'd been more done with it.)

[elzed.livejournal.com]

ah, throwaway plot threads, how they annoy me sometimes... (let's not talk about bsg, shall we?)

xx

But yes, absolutely. Poor little Nev.