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Because I'm bored and I like to procrastinate, I've been taking a bunch of Sorting Hat quizzes. I've been put into Hufflepuff twice and Ravenclaw once. I personally think that I'm either a Hufflepuff or Ravenclaw. Mostly Hufflepuff. What house do you guys think you would be in if you were Sorted?
submitted by Olive
(February 17, 2011 - 8:15 pm)
(February 17, 2011 - 8:15 pm)
Re: Hermione: We know that she has bushy hair and (until book four) buck teeth. As Ima said, at the Yule Ball she looked good but also very non-normal. The thought occurs that even if she were gorgeous, we wouldn't know too much about it from Harry; he doesn't see her as a potential girlfriend but as a sister. I always imagined her as fairly plain, actually, partly because she thinks such things are too much trouble and therefore doesn't bother. This is one of the reasons I am dissatisfied with her portrayal in the movies. Don't get me wrong; I think Emma Watson is a great actress. I just think she's a bit too pretty. In the Yule Ball scene, the only difference between normal!Hermione and beautiful!Hermione is that she's wearing a nicer dress than usual.
Re: Male Ravenclaws: The same way he got to know Luna, maybe? I agree though that his interactions are fairly limited to his own house.
Re: Hufflepuffs: Yes... Hufflepuffs haven't got much at all going for them, have they?
(February 22, 2011 - 4:57 pm)
Don't forget Cedric Diggory, who was a good-looking Hufflepuff. They aren't all ugly.
(February 22, 2011 - 1:54 pm)
Re: Penelope Clearwater: She probably wasn't ugly, but she probably wasn't that pretty either. Just, normal. (and just because she dated Percy Weasley doesn't exactly mean that she was a knock-out)
(February 22, 2011 - 7:52 pm)
In fact, if she dated Percy Weasley, she probably wasn't a knock-out.
(February 22, 2011 - 10:42 pm)
ZNZ, Olive: Yes, I agree with both of you (though, personally, I've always imagined Penelope as pretty).
Brynne: Yes, that's true. Then again, he was good at everything. As one of my favorite fanfiction authors once said, he's so likeable (as a person, not a character) that it seems JKR was just trying as hard as she could to make us sad about his death.
(February 22, 2011 - 10:26 pm)
Re Hermionie Oh, now that I think about it the actress is prettier than the way Hermionie is described in the books. I still like Emma as Hermionie.
RE: Cedric I believe he's supposed to be a ladies man.
RE: Penelope I've also imagined her as pretty but I think you guys are right, she wasn't supposed to be pretty, just normal.
Does anybody have a feeling that Hufflepuff doesn't come into the story a lot? And Harry and Ron: Good looking or not?
THe Duke of Captcha says yope. Yope? Huh?
(February 23, 2011 - 1:17 am)
I agree that Hufflepuff doesn't do much in the books. I imagine HP and Ron as normal-looking, I suppose. I feel that way about the actors, too, and the Mary Grandpre drawings, though both of those things are quite different from the way I imagine those characters.
(February 23, 2011 - 1:24 pm)
Re: Penelope: I imagined her as pretty as well. It might be because her name's pretty.
Re: Harry and Ron: Hmm... I imagine them as they were in the movies (since I saw the first and second movie before reading the series) but I think they, like Hermione, are a bit plain. Girls never flocked either of them (I think, I have a bad memory) and if they ever flocked Harry, it was probably because he's the Boy-Who-Lived.
(February 23, 2011 - 5:06 pm)
I imagine Hermione as mostly normal-looking, probably becoming slightly prettier as she got older and realized how to take care of her hair and fixed her teeth etc. Emma is too pretty to be Hermione, though she portrays the personality of Hermione fairly well.
I've always imagined Harry as being a little more attractive than Ron, but not much. Both pretty normal. Sadly, I now think of Harry as being very short due to Daniel's small compactness. And to me, Ron looks a lot like the Mary Grand Pré drawings of him, and both Harry and Hermione only exist in my imagination, looking nothing like the illustrated or movie portrayals of themselves (aside from Harry's stature).
Harry probably got to know Ravenclaws through other classes, though likely didn't become amazing friends (or we would have been told). I think it only mentions them taking Herbology with the Hufflepuffs, and really nothing else, right? Because Harry gets on well with Ernie MacMillan but only seems to see him in Herbology. Except for sixth-year potions, which are everyone together. Does anyone else think that if there are as many students at Hogwarts as JKR says there are, three Ravenclaws, three Slytherins, three Gryffindors and one Hufflepuff is an awfully small advanced potions class?
(February 23, 2011 - 9:56 pm)
Hm. You're right about the advanced potions class. I never thought of that. I suppose no-one wanted to take an optional potions class because they thought Snape would be teaching it, so most people wouldn't want to take it, and many of those who did (i.e. anyone who didn't get Outstanding on their Potions OWL) assumed they couldn't take it, anyway, and by the time they learned that Professor Snape wasn't teaching it, most of the ones who were now eligible decided they just didn't care enough to reapply for it and/or didn't have a job that required a Potions NEWT in mind?
However, electives continue to puzzle me. Often, 2 Houses will be in a core class, and when it's over, members of one House go to one elective and members of another go to a different class, often also an elective. I find it difficult to believe that every single member of a House will sign up for the exact same electives (except Hermione, of course). Anyway, if they're really divided up by House, it makes no sense. Hermione will go to an Arithmancy class in her 3rd year that's at the same time as Gryffindor's Charms class. It would seem that you'd need a Tim-Turner even if you only take 2 electives as long as one of them is Arithmancy--and that class is just an example. Yet when Hermione starts taking only 2 classes like everyone else, all this mysteriously disappears...
(February 23, 2011 - 10:17 pm)
Re: Harry and Ron-- Sadly the actors aren't that good looking. I guess Harry and Ron are pretty normal.
@ Brynne-- I think that's the only class except Harry invites quite a few Hufflepuffs to the DA...
(February 24, 2011 - 9:38 am)
No, it's Hermione who invited everyone to the DA, not Harry. Hermione was taking subjects that Harry wasn't, and I'm pretty sure Ron mentioned Ernie Macmillan being in one of them in book 3. She probably knows them better than Harry. Also, Zacharias only came because he overheard her talking about it to someone else and seemed interested; it would make sense that other Hufflepuffs might have as well, particularly if this discussion was going on at dinner, where all the Hufflepuffs would have been sitting together (though Hermione could have gone over to their table if she wanted to).
Aetc says dedb... I hope no-one is, well, dead?
(February 24, 2011 - 1:05 pm)
@ Ima--- Oh, right. That's what I meant.
Does anyone think that the author didn't particularirly like hufflepuff? Because Slytherin and Ravenclaw play bigger parts(I think...)
(February 25, 2011 - 8:22 am)
I agree. JKR has said that she would have wanted to be sorted into Gryffindor, and it makes sense. She doesn't give Ravenclaw much of role, either, though. It's just Gryffindor and Slytherin. It's too bad, really; I like the other Houses.
(February 25, 2011 - 11:40 am)
Re: Hufflepuff: I don't think J.K.R. didn't neccessarily dislike Hufflepuff but rather, she just favoured Gryffindor and Ravenclaw more.
(February 25, 2011 - 4:12 pm)