dragonpressgraphics replied to your post “Whenever I see popular Harry Potter House headcanons for various…”

see, the thing is – my daughter once kept asking me “What house is Cas in? what about Dean? or Sam?” and i was like, you know, that all of them have traits for each and every house. there’s no one true fit … even the sorting hat put harry where he WANTED to go… (which was probably entirely subconscious. although we could all hear him saying Not Slytherin – and who told him slytherin was a bad idea? the first person who was ever nice to him who was in gryffindor) so yes. i agree.

You know, if I were to ever write a Harry Potter fanfic, I would be “what would happen if Ron never said anything and Harry got put in Slytherin” because that has always bugged me. I know, in the beginning, they were just a stand-in for “evil” or whatever (okay, bunch of 12 year-olds are destined for evil) but that has so much potential. Who is Harry Potter when he’s put in the “evil” house? Does he become the next dark wizard? Does he become BFFs with Draco and put more of a moral strain on the kid (don’t get me started on Draco) or does Draco put a moral strain on him? How does Snape react? Would Ron and Hermione still be friends with him? Does being in the house of ambition really change a person that much? 

But yeah, there’s also the personal choice aspect which I always thought was kind of messed up if you’re supposed to be put in specific houses based on what the biggest driving factors of your personality are. It’s one of those things where technically, everyone is right because a decent argument could be made for all characters being in all houses (unless they’re very flat and uncomplicated). 

That being said, I’ve always put Dean in Hufflepuff and Sam and Cas in Slytherin.