animorphs in hogwarts?

[vanouria.livejournal.com]

i'm really sorry if this was discussed before, as i'm sure it's come up somewhere at some point :) what houses do you think the animorphs would be in? i would say the following:

rachel: gryffindor
cassie: hufflepuff
marco: slytherin (or possibly ravenclaw)
ax: ravenclaw

i'm a little up in the air with jake and tobias though. jake for example is very brave but not reckless the way rachel is. i feel like he's a bit of a gryffindor/ravenclaw in the beginning and then turns more towards slytherin towards the end as the decisions he has to make have bigger consequences. as for tobias, possibly hufflepuff as he's extremely loyal but then i also sense ravenclaw from him too. what do you guys think?

Comments

[felinephoenix.livejournal.com]

Oh, good, I was kind of worried I was the only who saw it that way. To be fair, Pottermore says something like "Slytherins can be very loyal... to their own" which basically summarizes Marco perfectly, so perhaps it's not strictly a Hufflepuff thing. (Or there's a lot more overlap between the houses than we're led to believe, which is my interpretation, but heyyyyy this is comm is about Animorphs not Harry Potter.)

The dinosaurs were what clinched it for me, actually! I was thinking that's such a Ravenclaw thing to do. Plus I'm pretty sure it's mentioned more than once that Tobias used to escape into books, like, all the time.

[blue_rampion]

Well, I don't think a trait being associated with one house means that ONLY THE PEOPLE FROM THAT HOUSE can have that trait? It just means that those are like...the dominant traits. (Not to mention those people who are borderline). And hey, it's all literature! :P

And he's also help the others with their homework, despite not having to go to school. And correct Marco's spelling Although admittedly that seemed to be something of a group effort

[felinephoenix.livejournal.com]

VERY TRUE. The picture we get of the houses can be very narrow sometimes but I don't think JKR intended it to be. Like you said, it's based on what traits a person has most of. And even Dumbledore admits that can change throughout a person's life! (Plus all the borderline people. Like, say, Harry. And Hermione. And, according to Pottermore, McGonagall and Flitwick... wasn't there also a mention of Neville being stuck between Hufflepuff and Gryffindor? And I'm sure there are many more.)

Good point! I can't recall what the books had to say about Tobias's grades but I've always figured he was either a) a good student on Rachel's level or b) had a potential but struggled due to his home situation. Or even a mix of both. Pfft, I'm pretty sure even Ax helped with Marco's spelling which is all sorts of sad.

[blue_rampion]

There is quite a gap between what the houses are stated to be and what they're actually portrayed as in the books. Like, JKR tells us that the Slytherins aren't all bad and that being a Slytherin doesn't meant hat you're evil, but she never actually shows that (which I tend to view as her own biases coming through.) I think you mentioned somewhere that Marco's a good example of a 'heroic' Slytherin, so he's basically a lot like what I imagine many Slytherins would be like, if they weren't being cast as the villains because JKR doesn't like cunning and ambitious people so much.

I can definitely see that! And I could imagine that with his home life, knowledge could have been something of a friend - since books are something that wouldn't neglect or abuse him. It is sad, and yet so incredibly amusing XD