Fudge House + Percy's House

[saintbacchus]

No: HPFGUIDX 36559

Elirtai sends us a poser:

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I was thinking of Cornelius Fudge.
So what house do you all think he came from?
>>

Hmmm...this is a tough one. The more I think about it,
the more I wonder about the adult characters. It seems
to be more difficult to classify them, although that
might just be because we don't know as much about them.
For example, if Aunt Petunia turns out to be magical
after all, where would she go? She's not brave,
probably not studious, definitely not earthy (hates
kids and animals), and apparently not very ambitious.


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- He's certainly not a Gryffindor. He's weak, he hasn't
got what it takes to do the right thing when that would
threaten his position.
>>

Agreed. Bravery involves risk, and he never does
anything risky.


<<
- Not a Ravenclaw, definitely - he's hopelessly
incompetent.
>>

I disagree with this, because I don't think competence
is an inherent Ravenclaw trait. I've known plenty of
people who got through school without the brains to fill
a thimble just because they studied hard. Or, as Colette
more eloquently put it:

"[She would do well no doubt] thanks to a prodigious
memory which takes the place of real intelligence."


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- And wouldn't you say he puts his ambitions above
everything else?
>>

He's a politician through and through - and I mean that
in the perjorative sense, not just as a word to describe
people who hold public office.

My money is on either Ravenclaw or Slytherin. I'm
leaning towards Ravenclaw, though, because a Slytherin
without common sense is in serious trouble.

Okay, so here's the question: what about Percy? We know
he was in Gryffindor, but wouldn't he have been better
suited to Slytherin or Hufflepuff? He's shown far more
in the way of ambition and blind loyalty than bravery.
Ron even says at one point that Percy would be likely to
turn in his family if it meant advancing his career. It
might have been just a snarky, offhand comment, but
there's a grain of truth to it, ne?

Perhaps this is why Percy is so often the frontrunner in
"Who will go bad?" polls - right next to Fudge.

--Anna