The Houses - joining the Death Eaters
Rita Winston
catlady at wicca.net
Sat Jul 14 23:31:00 UTC 2001
No: HPFGUIDX 22554
Jenny from Ravenclaw wrote:
> Why are Crabbe and Goyle in Slytherin? What little I
> know of them tells me they are, overall, exceedingly
> loyal to Draco. Wouldn't that make them Hufflepuffian?
I suppose that they are loyal not to their word of honor (Hufflepuffian)
but to their status as Draco's men-at-arms, a symbiotic relationship in
which they provide the muscle and he provides the brain. That is their
ambition and it benefits them.
Dane from Ravenclaw wrote:
> Given the house personalities, [Slytherin] people
> are risk-takers --living life on the edge types--those
> who would be drawn, not necessarily to evil, but to the
> thrill of the unknown,
That sounds just as much like Gryffindors. 'Big T' (thrillseeking)
personalities could go into Slyth or Gryff. 'Little t' (thrill-avoiding)
personalities could go into Hufflepuff (but force themselves to do
unpleasantly dangerous and exciting things out of duty), Ravenclaw, or
they could go into Slytherin with the highest ambition of making
themselves safe and secure.
> then finding themselves drawn in to the abyss.
Are there Gryffindors who joined the Death Eaters that way? Are there
Slytherins who became Death Eaters that way? I imagine that some Slyths
joined to get more power, wealth, or immortality for themselves
(ambition), and some Slyths joined because they thought it would be
safer to be on the winning side (self-interest), and some Slyths joined
because Death Eating gave them the opportunity to torture and kill
people as they had always wanted to do (self-interest), and some joined
to go along with their friends (loyalty), and some joined because they
believed in ideological anti-Muggle-ism (loyalty?). I image Snape as
being the only person who joined the Death Eaters by accident...
> And I still think Hermione is a better-suited
> Ravenclaw, but for plot purposes we find her
> in Gryffindor.
Hermione ASKED the Hat to put her in Gryffindor -- apparently the Hat
takes the student's desire into account -- that could also explain why
Crabbe and Goyle are in Slytherin -- but Hermione's desire to be in
Gryffindor sounds to me like not a very Ravenclaw desire: it shows
ambition to be in 'the best' House and implies a desire to grow up to be
like the admired Gryff alums, such as Dumbledore who defeated the Dark
Wizard Grindelwald; a 'big T' type of ambition! -- as an AMBITION it
could be a Slytherin trait, but as an ambition to DO HEROIC THINGS it is
a Gryffindor trait. I imagine that ambitious Ravenclaws would be more
ambitious to discover knowledge worthy of the Nobel Prize than to get
the fame/fortune of winning the Nobel Prize.
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