hogwarts houses :: colors

There's someone around these parts who often talks about being a Slytherclaw, a Slytherin with Ravenclaw tendencies. I was thinking about how I'm the opposite, a Ravenclaw with Slytherin tendencies, and about how this sort of thing is important in the books -- Harry's in Gryffindor, but he *could* have been in Slytherin, etc. And I started getting this image in my head:

( the four houses as an abstract visual )

( EDIT: or as a tetrahedron )

So within a house, say Slytherin, you've got four possibilities: pure Slytherin, Slytherin with Ravenclaw traits, Slytherin with Gryffindor traits, and Slytherin with Hufflepuff traits. And there's always a continuum; you could be closer to or further from the borderlines. If Hermione is a Gryffinclaw, she's also near Hufflepuff-like Gryffindor and Slytherin-like Gryffindor. You could put her right in the corner between the three.

Seeing that there are sixteen options made me think of the Myers-Briggs inventory [that page has a title graphic that's interestingly similar to the houses graphic above, but puts less emphasis on a fundamental four-way division]. The houses can perhaps correspond to the four temperaments: Gryffindors as Artisans, Ravenclaws as Guardians, Hufflepuffs as Idealists, and Slytherins as Rationals. But the mapping isn't quite true, since the house system takes into account the traits that you consider the best, or that could be nurtured to help you do well, which are not necessarily the currently dominant traits in your personality. I'm an Idealist, but I'm certainly not a Hufflepuff. Essentially, MB tells you what you are, and the Sorting Hat tells you what you could be.

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On a somewhat similar note, that color quiz that's going around (gacked from woolf):

( I am dark green. )

wolfie_thu, I'd be particularly interested to hear what you think of this meme.

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And in left-brain news, I can't spell anymore. I used to spell flawlessly. I was known for it. Now I'm wavering between "publically" and "publicly", and between "unforgivable" and "unforgiveable". For this, dear internet, I blame you.

hogwarts houses :: colors

There's someone around these parts who often talks about being a Slytherclaw, a Slytherin with Ravenclaw tendencies. I was thinking about how I'm the opposite, a Ravenclaw with Slytherin tendencies, and about how this sort of thing is important in the books -- Harry's in Gryffindor, but he *could* have been in Slytherin, etc. And I started getting this image in my head:

( the four houses as an abstract visual )

( EDIT: or as a tetrahedron )

So within a house, say Slytherin, you've got four possibilities: pure Slytherin, Slytherin with Ravenclaw traits, Slytherin with Gryffindor traits, and Slytherin with Hufflepuff traits. And there's always a continuum; you could be closer to or further from the borderlines. If Hermione is a Gryffinclaw, she's also near Hufflepuff-like Gryffindor and Slytherin-like Gryffindor. You could put her right in the corner between the three.

Seeing that there are sixteen options made me think of the Myers-Briggs inventory [that page has a title graphic that's interestingly similar to the houses graphic above, but puts less emphasis on a fundamental four-way division]. The houses can perhaps correspond to the four temperaments: Gryffindors as Artisans, Ravenclaws as Guardians, Hufflepuffs as Idealists, and Slytherins as Rationals. But the mapping isn't quite true, since the house system takes into account the traits that you consider the best, or that could be nurtured to help you do well, which are not necessarily the currently dominant traits in your personality. I'm an Idealist, but I'm certainly not a Hufflepuff. Essentially, MB tells you what you are, and the Sorting Hat tells you what you could be.

*

On a somewhat similar note, that color quiz that's going around (gacked from woolf):

( I am dark green. )

wolfie_thu, I'd be particularly interested to hear what you think of this meme.

*

And in left-brain news, I can't spell anymore. I used to spell flawlessly. I was known for it. Now I'm wavering between "publically" and "publicly", and between "unforgivable" and "unforgiveable". For this, dear internet, I blame you.