Characters In Hogwarts Houses

Time to sort some of my favorite characters:

Caitlin Snow: Slytherin. No, not just because of Killer Frost. Caitlin's ambitious as heck ("My once-promising career"?). She's cold towards strangers and looks out for those she cares about, and while she's interested in the pursuit of knowledge, this is less a desire to learn and more a desire to apply said knowledge towards a practical application.

Roxie Hart: Roxie's a Gryffindor trying to be a Slytherin. She's bold and brash and impulsive but she's not a strategist. Velma Kelly, however, is a true Slytherin.

Samwise Gamgee: A Gryffindor/Hufflepuff hybrid, but ultimately more Hufflepuff. He's a hard worker and a devoted friend, but he's still got a good dose of Gryffindor daring.

I dunno if I'd call Caitlin ambitious. She's had zero desire to advance her position or really change her life in any significant way in all of the five years that we've known her. She's also characteristically very blunt, and rarely the one the Flash crew calls on for a plan, so I dunno if I'd call her cunning either. I'd go Ravenclaw or Hufflepuff for her.

Killer Frost is definitely a former Evil Gryffindor, now Anti-Heroic Gryffindor, though. Fearless and impulsive to a fault, direct and uncompromising, but kept in check with a small but growing sense of honor.

Since the Hogwarts Houses are pretty blatantly based on the character archetypes in classic fantasy stories, I wouln't find it hard to believe that Rowling was literally thinking of Samwise when she designed Hufflepuff. Its virtues are pretty much an exact match for his role in the story.

Edited by KnownUnknown on Dec 13th 2018 at 9:03:51 AM

I'm also basing my sorting of Caitlin partially off of what was written in the Slytherin Welcome letter, and partly on The Sorting Hat Chats's system:

"Slytherin Primaries are fiercely loyal to the people they care for most. Slytherin is the place where “you’ll make your real friends”– they prioritize individual loyalties and find their moral core in protecting and caring for the people they are closest to."

"Slytherin primaries...can become loyal to so many people they look like a kindly Hufflepuff; or, so long as their people are safe, a Slytherin might bury themselves in selfless outward moralities, crusading for a cause."

"Slytherin and Hufflepuff are the two Loyalist Primaries. They make their judgement calls for the sake of people, not ideals. But where Hufflepuff tends to bond to groups, Slytherin bonds hard with individuals."

That said, I could easily see her being a Ravenclaw or a Hufflepuff. My main instinct against Ravenclaw, however, is that Ravenclaw seems to value knowledge for the sake of knowledge, while Slytherin puts that knowledge towards a specific end goal.

also I'm a Slytherin and I can't make plans to save my life so there's that too

Now for Narbonic.

Helen: I'd put her as a slytherin with strong ravenclaw tendencies. She outright states that most of the comic is a plan on her part (but then she also states that her main strategy is just to do whatever pops into her head so I'm not sure.)

Dave: I'd say Dave is the opposite of Helen: A ravenclaw with strong slytherin tendencies that show up more towards the end. Makes sense, considering how they complement each other as a couple.

Mell: Superficially she seems like a gryffindor, but I'm pretty sure she's actually a slytherin.

Artie: No clue. He's certainly very smart, which could point towards ravenclaw, and he's really concerned with fairness and justice, which could point towards hufflepuff. But then, he does have some slytherin tendencies that show up more in Skin Horse- it's even stated that he's become more like Helen.

Helen Alpha: Slytherin all the way.

Madblood: Probably a ravenclaw.

Caliban: Definitely a hufflepuff.

Edited by Loctavia on Feb 10th 2019 at 7:55:28 AM

A Song of Ice and Fire: I'd think that Tywin, Tyrion and Cersei would be Slytherin. Lannisters have family ambition as a strong part of them, and they are ambitious in their own way. Tyrion would represent the more positive traits and Cersei the more negative. Robert Baratheon would likely be a Hufflepuff given his skill at making friends and allies, while also having some of the most negative traits like hedonism. Daenaerys seems like she'd be a hatstall between Slytherin and Gryffindor, at least in my opinion

Edited by Alex2000 on Mar 11th 2019 at 4:16:41 AM

I join the chorus of people who say Sam Gamgee is in Hufflepuff - incidentally when I read the description of the Hufflepuff common room (on the ground floor, round windows, patchwork quilts) I was practically screaming "HOBBITS!! THEY'RE ALL HOBBITSES!" Which made me so happy.

''Hamilton: Alexander: ... Slytherin through and through. That ambition, never being satisfied, utterly convinced he is meant for more... textbook Slytherin. Jefferson: I'd also put him in Slytherin, which is why they butt heads. Burr: Ravenclaw or Hufflepuff. Angelica: RAVENCLAW. Eliza: Hufflepuff.

Discworld Moist von Lipwig: Slytherin/Gryffindor bordercase. He is sharp and ambitious, but also foolhardy at times, daring and addicted to danger in a way a Slytherin wouldn't be.

I kind of think Alexander Hamilton would have started out as Slytherin, but the crap he goes through and the consequences of his mistakes would cause him to mellow out. In the end, his ability to put aside personal grudges for the benefit of other people, his willingness to accept a duel over personal honor, and his decision to throw away his shot all speak to a bit of Gryffindor honor, bravery, and a bit of recklessness.

This is of course about the Hamilton character from the musical, not the real life Alexander Hamilton. The real life Alexander Hamilton was by all accounts a bit of a jerk.

By all accounts he did have that recklessness in real life too. And as for mellowing out, the loss of his son broke him in real life perhaps even more than shown in the musical.

Edited by Alex2000 on Oct 5th 2019 at 8:50:20 AM

I've lately been doing an Eddsworld Hogwarts AU (because the characters actually live in the UK, so it makes sense that they'd end up in Hogwarts as wizards) and it was super fun to sort them! Here's what I came up with (NOTE: For the characters based on real people, this ONLY applies to my interpretations of them as characters, not their real life counterparts):

Edd: Gryffindor. No doubt about it. He's brave, he's adventurous and he generally leaps into things without thinking.

Tom: Ravenclaw. Maybe it's the smarts, maybe it's the 'tude. Tom's generally the brains of the cast, but more than that, he's the one with the most common sense (at least, most of the time). He's also been shown to be one of the more...eccentric members of the group, which Ravenclaw seems to have an odd fondness for.

Matt: Hufflepuff. I'm a little ashamed to admit, as a Hufflepuff myself, that this one was more due to not thinking he fit anywhere else. Matt's never depicted as having courage, ambition or intelligence (especially not intelligence) as major traits of his, but calling him a Hufflepuff is a bit difficult as he's not particularly hard-working either. That said, a case could be made for Legacy-era Matt being loyal, as he always seems to stick by his friends' sides. And if all else fails, I could break my above mentioned rule and note that the real life Matt Hargreaves is still loyally trying to get the show back up in Edd's honor.

Tord: Slytherin. This one was a no brainer. You don't get much more ambitious than wanting to take over the world!

Eduardo: Slytherin. The Neighbors were actually easier to sort than the main four, believe it or not. Eduardo isn't necessarily cunning (he's more of a brute force kinda guy) but he is ambitious ("I'M NUMERO UNO!") and resourceful (how else could he have gotten that nuclear powered satellite dish?).

Jon: Hufflepuff. Jon is loyal and kind to Eduardo even to his own detriment. Easy.

Mark: Ravenclaw. Mark was more difficult because he doesn't have a personality, but I settled on Ravenclaw partly to make him a foil to Matt and partly as a nod to him having been a big nerd as a kid (at least according to Edd's flashback in PowerEdd).

Laurel: Gryffindor. She comes off as the type who's up for anything, no matter how crazy. Definitely fits the recklessness Gryffindors are known for.

Paul and Patryck: Both are in Slytherin, mostly just because Tord's in that house XD But then, Paul's gotta be at least a little ambitious, what with the many many many many jobs he's got.

Among side characters, I put Kim, Katya, Psycosis, Yuu and Yanov in Gryffindor, Bing, Larry, Coco and Joe Gran in Ravenclaw and Hellucard and Diwi in Hufflepuff. Since I was on a roll there, I decided to also add Ben and Lucy, who I ended up placing in Gryffindor and Hufflepuff respectively.

I could also see Hamilton!Burr being a Slytherin- he's resourceful and can definitely be calculating. I can still definitely see him as a Ravenclaw, but there are some lines in "Wait For It" that are very Slytherin-esque to me:

• "I'm not standing still; I am lying in wait."

• "When they died, they left no instructions- just a legacy to protect."

• "And we keep living anyway."

Hamilton!Burr would be a particularly negative example of a Slytherin since his ambition is nothing but a desire for power itself. He doesn't really have any goal in mind aside from being in the room where it happens.

...

I
Wanna be in
The room where it happens
The room where it happens

Edited by M84 on Sep 30th 2019 at 12:44:09 AM

Real life Burr would be a more positive Slytherin from what I get. At least, before 1804. Actually, there's a question-what Founding Fathers would be long in what houses and why?

I think we shouldn't talk about real life people in this thread. Better to stick with fictional characters.