[HPforGrownups] Re: JKR's priorities and how they affect interpretation (small SHIP section in the middle)

[Jennifer Boggess Ramon]

No: HPFGUIDX 31969

At 10:33 PM -0600 12/19/01, Penny & Bryce wrote:
>
>So, who's flat & who's round in the Potterverse?

Just my two Knuts:

Anyone who "obviously" belongs in the House to which they were 
assigned at least begins as flat.  They become rounder if we begin to 
wonder if they're in the "right" house.  Hermione and Harry were 
round to begin with, by this definition.  The crux of the Draco 
argument, in these terms, is: is he round (in which case he'll do 
something un-Slytherin, showing either loyalty or bravery and thus 
marking himself as Hufflepuffy or Griffendorish; those of us who 
think he's a bit of a brain have already tried to round him by giving 
him Ravenclaw traits) or flat (Slytherin to the end)?

Some of the rounder edges of the Weasley brothers have come about by 
their ambition to better themselves - a Slytherinesque trait.

Snape is all Slytherin, right?  Ah, but he's Loyal to Dumbledore - 
Hufflepuffy.  (Ditto McGonnigal, Gryffendor, loyalty, and 
Hufflepuffiness.)

This is of course not the only determiner of dimensionality in 
characters, but it seems fairly consistent.

>What I would say is that this isn't mathematics: there is no *one*
>single right answer.

Sorry, pet peeve (I'm a math teacher) - for all the interesting 
questions in mathematics, there is no One Right True and Only answer, 
either.  That only works for arithmetic.  Probably isn't true in 
Arithmancy, either (veering back to topic, anyone have any wild 
guesses what goes on in that class?).

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