[HPforGrownups] House Prejudice, was Clue from JKR about Hagrid's House

[Melanie Brackney]

No: HPFGUIDX 22547


--- Sam Brown <find_sam at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Steve Vander Ark wrote:
> > JKR said in the Barnes and Noble chat that Hagrid
> was in 
> Gryffindor. 
> 
> Does it annoy anyone else slightly that Gryffindor
> is *such* a 
> prominent house in the canon? Most of the main
> characters are in this 
> house - the Trio (of course), all of the Weasleys,
> Dumbledore, 
> Hagrid, and the assumption is that the Marauders and
> Lily were (I 
> just know I'm going to be nitpicked for writing
> that... <g>). JKR 
> once said in a chat, IIRC, that she would be in
> Gryffindor, so it's 
> fairly clear she favours that house.
> 
> Personally it irritates me that Gryffindor House is
> favoured above 
> the rest in the canon, especially in the case of
> Hagrid. I don't see 
> Hagrid as being a Gryffindor - he is, IMO, much more
> of a Hufflepuff 
> personality: hard working and loyal. Hagrid and
> Gryffindor just don't 
> match up for me, and I don't really like it that JKR
> is putting a lot 
> of the 'heroes' into the one house, just because
> that house is 
> the 'best'. It's as if, to be good and heroic, you
> must be a 
> Gryffindor. Ravenclaws and Hufflepuffs clearly
> aren't fit to save the 
> world. And Slytherins... well, they're just evil,
> aren't they?
> 
>
I've thought a lot about where the story should be,
like where the characters belong.  I often think it
makes us hard to see where these characters belong
because JKR writes them so well.  Quite frankly,
characters that are fully developed should exhibit
characteristics of all houses, it makes them more
realistic.  Hagrid is loyal and hardworking but he's
also brave, a Gryffindor characterstic.  Hermione may
be a really smart, but she works her ass off for those
grades.  So she is a hardworker also, and very loyal
those are Hufflepuff characteristics.  However, she is
very clever and logical which would indicate more
Ravenclaw.  And she is brave, although, I don't think
she's as brave as many of the other characters, why
JKR chose Slytherin with those personalities for her I
don't understand.  Harry and Ron seem like true
Gryffindors, I think this also goes with the idea that
they were planned from the beginning and hermione was
an added character later in the story development.  It
is possible to have plotted out most of SS/PS and not
have Hermione be a part of it.  And honestly I don't
think, judging by her saying that she was a lot like
Hermione that she would be Gryffindor, just a hunch on
that.  You also see characters like Percy, who
strikingly resembles a slytherin (ambition) and a
RAvenclaw *everything else* but not really a
Gryffindor.  Also, you have Cedric who obviously is
very brave, and loyal, and I suppose hardworking.  So
I Mean he is a mixture of Hufflepuff/Gryffindor.  It's
very hard to really understand all of this house
buisiness, I think the mystery will be revealed later.
 I really don't understand it either..but oh well.
Melanie

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