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.
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