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Mmmhmmm. Or even Harry, Ron, and Hermione in different houses. That honestly would’ve made sense, too. Like, idk, one way to really make me worry Harry might have more in common with Voldemort than he wants or actually give him a challenge could be to either make him a Slytherin or give him Slytherin friends.

Idk I have a lot of thoughts about how backloaded everything is. Perhaps it was because the older Harry got the more he was supposed to realize not everything was black and white, but a lot of it feels like she suddenly realized she had made everything black and white and needed to fix that. All that nuance that could’ve been was lost because the good guys were good and the bad guys were bad until suddenly it needed to not be that way.

Idk. I have a lot of rambly thoughts about how things could’ve been done. I was never into HP that much, so idk if reading it as a kid and growing up with the books changes things but it probably does. It’s probably enough for 14 year olds but not me.

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rosemoonweaver:

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rosemoonweaver:

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. 

i always hated that, that slytherin was automatically the evil house. 

i mean, we happen to know of a few gryffindors who were absolute bullies, don’t we? That’ not brave to be a bully. and a bunch of gryffindors from another generation who were cunning and sneaky and always plotting – which is another supposed slytherin trait.

and who else do we know that was supposed to be slytherin but wasn’t? Sirius. his whole family was, so he probably should have been too – but he never wanted to be like them. so what’s the furthest he could get from slytherin? You gotta believe he was reluctant to be in that house and the sorting hat knew it.

I like to put Sam in Ravenclaw because i always associate him with books but yes, he does have the slytherin qualities and hell, they’ve all got gryffindor and hufflepuff cause they’re stupidly brave and definitely loyal . but i would definitely never be able to come down on a solid “This is their house” type thing.

At the risk of angering a huge segment of the HP fandom, Harry’s own dad was a bully and he was about as Gryffindor as it gets. Sirius, too. Peter was a traitor. Sirius’s brother Regulus was a Syltherin and he destroyed a horcrux. Tonk’s mom was a Slytherin. Slughorn was a Slytherin. In the freaking battle of Hogwarts (not the movies, the books b/c the movies still hung on to the “Syltherin’s are evil” thing) Slytherin house left, went to Hogsmead, and brought people back who were willing to fight. It’s that whole “resourcefulness” thing in action. Like it got better as the books went on but there’s still the whole “Slytherin bad” thing in the books themselves, even in how characters react. I don’t doubt Sirius’s own desire to not be like his family was part of what put him in Gryffindor. And I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if some of the reason houses tend to have whole families is because of the family legacy thing. If everyone in your family was a Gryffindor, don’t you want to be one, too? 

I see Sam put in Ravenclaw a lot. I totally get it, because he is very bookish. But yeah, he’s got qualities of all four houses. It really depends on what each individual sees as most important and even then it’s hard to pin down. 

i mean, harry’s dad was exactly who i was referring to. and yes, those are also good points.

i think what the books were trying to do is show children that things weren’t always as black and white as you once think they are. the books do grow and grow more complex as they go. 

i mean, i could be wrong. it could be that jk totally didn’t intend it, but thats kinda what i always got from it.

i was recently ‘assigned’ the task of figuring out which of the tarot knights would best represent Dean and Sam – give them 2 each. and i was stumped for the same damn reason. because the characters grew and we learned more about them we didn’t know before and what traits they might have fit in one knight in the early seasons wasn’t appropriate anymore. or they only fit one or two of the traits in each knight.

so i was fairly unable to just pick 2 and stick to them. because which traits were more intrinsically important to the character? Which had the most weight?

I definitely think it was intended. I mean, I do think there were thinks Rowling only thought about as she wrote more but as the books go one things do get more complex. Sirius’s implied alcoholism for one, doesn’t show up until… the fifth book I think? Maybe? But I do think they’re meant to grow up with the audience and I think that’s a good thing. 

Oh man, the tarot is hard. Especially with characters who do grow and change over such a long period of time. Who Sam and Dean are at the beginning of the series is so different from who they are now. I’ve tried to come up with a line-up for the Major Arcana and spn characters and I always wind up flip-flopping. 

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rosemoonweaver:

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. 

i always hated that, that slytherin was automatically the evil house. 

i mean, we happen to know of a few gryffindors who were absolute bullies, don’t we? That’ not brave to be a bully. and a bunch of gryffindors from another generation who were cunning and sneaky and always plotting – which is another supposed slytherin trait.

and who else do we know that was supposed to be slytherin but wasn’t? Sirius. his whole family was, so he probably should have been too – but he never wanted to be like them. so what’s the furthest he could get from slytherin? You gotta believe he was reluctant to be in that house and the sorting hat knew it.

I like to put Sam in Ravenclaw because i always associate him with books but yes, he does have the slytherin qualities and hell, they’ve all got gryffindor and hufflepuff cause they’re stupidly brave and definitely loyal . but i would definitely never be able to come down on a solid “This is their house” type thing.

At the risk of angering a huge segment of the HP fandom, Harry’s own dad was a bully and he was about as Gryffindor as it gets. Sirius, too. Peter was a traitor. Sirius’s brother Regulus was a Syltherin and he destroyed a horcrux. Tonk’s mom was a Slytherin. Slughorn was a Slytherin. In the freaking battle of Hogwarts (not the movies, the books b/c the movies still hung on to the “Syltherin’s are evil” thing) Slytherin house left, went to Hogsmead, and brought people back who were willing to fight. It’s that whole “resourcefulness” thing in action. Like it got better as the books went on but there’s still the whole “Slytherin bad” thing in the books themselves, even in how characters react. I don’t doubt Sirius’s own desire to not be like his family was part of what put him in Gryffindor. And I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if some of the reason houses tend to have whole families is because of the family legacy thing. If everyone in your family was a Gryffindor, don’t you want to be one, too? 

I see Sam put in Ravenclaw a lot. I totally get it, because he is very bookish. But yeah, he’s got qualities of all four houses. It really depends on what each individual sees as most important and even then it’s hard to pin down. 

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. 

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

I think complex characters are too difficult to simply stick in one house. Just like people. We see what we want to see and block out the rest. But I agree – from what I’ve seen? Totally a Gryffindor.

Yup. It’s much easier to go by the whole “brave, smart, evil, miscellaneous” groupings when you have less complex characters. I tend to approach it like I do any other AU: what are the most important traits of these characters? What do I think they would hold onto as core parts of their personalities regardless of what universe they show up in? What do they value the most? So of course my interpretations are going to be different from everyone else’s because what I think is the “core” of these characters will be different from what someone else thinks is the “core” of the characters. 

That being said: 
Rey’s a Gryffindor. Brave, reckless, good heart, would fight you behind a Denny’s? Gryffindor. 

ARG ROSE I REALLY WANNA DO YOUR HALLOWEEN CHALLENGE BUT I CAN’T PICK BETWEEN 4,5, and 7 HALP

intotheruins:

rosemoonweaver:

Uhhhh… roll a die?
Wait what characters do you wanna write? That could help narrow it down.

I wanna do johnlock. I’ve ruled out 5, and I think I’m starting to lean toward 7 but ahhhh, I could do some cool shit with 4… *flail* lol

Oooh. Both of those would be fun. It really just depends on what you want to do.

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unforth-ninawaters replied to your post “Haunted…

I missed the biggest scare at my HS by a year; the World Trade Center was less than a half mile from where I went to school but I had left for college by then. Theres a whole album of photos students took that morning, showing the whole thing going down, and the school was used a triage center for rmonths after, the students were sent to a different building.

That’s scary as hell. I can’t even imagine what that must’ve been like. I was still in grade school at the time. Damn.