Find your Niche

[montavilla47]

No: HPFGUIDX 182693

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "potioncat" <willsonkmom at ...> wrote:
>
> The Coolness thread made me think of youth and school and a parent's 
> perspective. You send your kid off to the next level of school, 
> hoping they'll make friends. You don't want them at the mercy of a 
> clique, but you want them to find their niche.  (Those kids have a 
> clique, my kid has a circle of friends.) The kids themselves go off 
> hoping they'll make friends, that they'll know someone in their 
> class, that they'll fit in.
> 
> So, with that in mind, here's the question. 
> 
> If you were in this wizarding world, where you fit in, or want to fit 
> in? Why? Not, where would you be sorted or want to be sorted
although 
> that could be part of it. Rather, which group of kids would you want 
> to hang out with?  Or, as an adult, which characters would you be 
> most comfortable with? Did any kids or groups appeal to you in the 
> beginning of the series, but with whom you wouldn't want to belong 
> later. (Yes, Lily, I mean you.) 
> 
> You can choose from any of the generations.  Support your choices 
> with canon, or we'll have to go behind the greenhouses to discuss it.
> 
> Potioncat
>
Montavilla47:

I think I'd like to hang out with the Hufflepuffs, myself.  The only problem
is that they seem to be the redshirts in the story, but that Cedric Diggory
was fine!  And he was nice. 

I also like the Slytherins and, if I were smart enough to be ambitious, I
would appreciate that whole golden pass into life you get through the
Slug Club.  Also, the Slytherins are probably the most likely to have a 
drama club and I hung out with the drama kids.  

I never much cared for the jocks, so I think I'd stay away from the 
Griffyndors.  But I have always liked Neville, so I think if I were in
Harry's generation, I'd want to hang out with him.  Seamus and Dean
also seem nice.

I might like the girls, but I'm not nearly as girly as they seem to be,
(the giggling and boy talk and all that), so I would have, like 
Hermione, sought out the boys for friendship.

But, alpha male boys are no fun at all.  So, not Harry and not Draco.