Kat the Slytherclaw

If any of you know me at all, you're probably expecting me to say the sorting hat would place me in Slytherin. This is due to most of my RP characters being from Slytherin and running a student group that sought to rid the wizarding world of filth. Part of it could also be the fact that I love all the Death Eaters (except the stupid ones like the Carrows and some that showed up at the Ministry in book 5) and Voldemort, dress up as Narcissa at cons, and so on. Of course, another large part of it would have to be that I told anyone who would listen that I'd be a Slytherin for years. While it is true that I have a love for our green and silver friends and a soft spot for the intricate characters that house seems to produce, I, sadly, would most likely not be placed in Slytherin.

Due to my intellectual side (all right, my nerdy side), I have to admit that I'd be a Ravenclaw. I spend a good hunk of my free time studying various topics of interest to me, cannot stand those who do not actively pursue knowledge in whatever form and remain willfully ignorant, and, because of all this, did quite well in school.

Though I'd say I'm fairly ambitious, achievement-oriented, and possess a great number of Slytherin traits, my Ravenclaw-osity outweighs them greatly. I could see a few Hufflepuff traits in me as well, despite how much I mock Hufflepuff (but who doesn't, really, even The Butterbeer Experience concedes that “it sucks being in Hufflepuff”). I'm pretty loyal, but since I'm not good at finding things, I guess I wouldn't fit well. No, really, I just don't see myself as a Hufflepuff, and I think the Sorting Hat would agree.

The only house I absolutely cannot see myself in would have to be Gryffindor. I don't possess great courage, and I'd actively ask the hat not to put me there since I can't stand the majority of Gryffindor characters from the books. I know, I know. Since I started this post by saying I loved Slytherin, a lot of you were probably expecting me to profess my hatred for Gryffindor at some point. On top of the fact that most Gryffindors in the books were dumb as rocks (as I said before, this irritates me beyond anything else...except perhaps their laziness when it comes to academia), a lot of the “fans” I meet that claim to be Gryffindors cannot tell me for sure why they fit into that house. The typical responses I get when I ask why they're in Gryffindor range from “Because Gryffindor is the best!” to “Who wouldn't want to be in Harry's house?” These are usually from those that don't fall into what I would consider to be the “real fandom” (the awesomely amazing other geeks that attend cons, listen to wrock, etc. as opposed to those that have seen the movies and maybe read half of the first book), so I usually don't take issue with the “real fans” who profess to be Gryffindors because they know what it takes to be a Gryffindor and know they fit into that house. I would have to throw in that the movie fans would probably fit into Gryffindor because they didn't research the other houses (or often pick up a HP book to read the story they claim to like), but these are the Gryffindors I usually don't get along with (hence my dislike for Harry and Ron).

So, perhaps this Slytherclaw does have quite a bit of the inter-house hostility described in the books. That's mainly for the characters in the books. I'd get along best with Ravenclaws and Hufflepuffs in the books (but not Cho, Marcus Belby, or Zacharias Smith), most likely. In real life, I tend to get along with all the houses in the “true” fandom.

Oh, I'm also not meaning to say that we're better than those who only like the movies, though I can definitely see how one might get that. The fandoms are just so different (book and movie) that I need to distinguish them for the purpose of my post.