Get Your Sorting Hat Out

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lorataprose sent me a link to a fan's sorting of the Hunger Games characters into the Hogwarts houses. She didn't like a lot of the author's picks, and I definitely agreed (Gale as a Slytherin? The man who turned down his One True Love's offer to run off into the woods in order to fight a seemingly hopeless battle for justice? Just because you don't like a

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[lorata]

I would just like to say that the reason I sent that link is because I was mouth-frothing over EFFIE IN HUFFLEPUFF.

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Duly noted

*hides under something*

[lorata]

hahahaha I just want the other commenters to see this and join in my rage pls

[lorata]

As a sixteen year old, he decided that he loved a girl he almost never spoke to so much he was willing to die for her. I'm not sure if that's anything other than crazy, but maybe it's Hufflepuff?

I can't decide whether this makes me laugh my head off or feel insulted. XD

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A little from column A...

Seriously, I'm thinking it's a kind of intense, almost pathological loyalty? There's a 'shadow' to every positive house characteristic. Maybe this is one form of that?

[lorata]

In my head I think Peeta is too much of a manipulative liar to be in Hufflepuff (THIS IS NOT A BAD THING DO NOT COME AFTER ME SLYTHERINS, IF HE HAD NOT DONE THEY WOULD ALL BE DEAD), look at how he dealt with the Capitol and everything. But yeah, his loving~~~ a girl he's probably never spoken to in his life is pretty dumb for a snake.

also he and Snape both stalked their bb crushes from the bushes like total weirdo creepers, although SNAPE ACTUALLY TALKED TO HIS AND MADE FRIENDS WITH HER, PEETA

I dunno, like we were saying it's hard to place him because we don't see a lot of him. We get Katniss' POV where she mostly misunderstands him, and then he's ........ hijacked. So.

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(THIS IS NOT A BAD THING DO NOT COME AFTER ME SLYTHERINS, IF HE HAD NOT DONE THEY WOULD ALL BE DEAD)

Hey, I got no issues here. That's a Slytherin compliment.

[lorata]

omg all these comments are me COME ON LIVEJOURNAL

[kawuli]

Fight me, timezones!

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[kawuli]

i'm saving this for next time I want to quit and join the circus.

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I feel like Johanna is definitely Gryffindor - I didn't really think she pretended to be weak so much as she discovered late in the game that she was strong.

Yes on Rue, omg. And Katniss never puts it together, either, which is also amazing in an entirely different direction.

[kawuli]

Johanna, yeah, I kind of like the "she wasn't totally faking, she was actually really scared" characterization a la deathmallow, it seems like the sort of thing the Capitol would do, to take that and twist it into "oh wasn't she so clever!"

And Katniss never puts it together, either, which is also amazing in an entirely different direction.
Katniss really is oblivious sometimes, huh. Can be kind of annoying in your POV character.

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IDK, I guess I'm in the minority, but I could easily see the Johanna we meet in CF pulling off the fake-weakling thing. It's one of the best strategies I can think of for someone as diminutive as Jo. I like the idea that she was clever about it, rather than almost breaking down and just happening to get lucky. (But I'll also admit I don't put a lot of thought into her characterization because she's not in my list o' favorites)

[kawuli]

Oh I could kind of see it either way, or a hybrid where she really was scared and then realized she could play that into an advantage.

I find Johanna really interesting actually, I just don't know how to write her at all.

[kawuli]

I don't know HP all that well (/hides) so I'll just be over here nodding and going "hmmm, interesting" except to say I have no clue how you would even go about sorting Effie given that she may in fact be a Capitol cyborg.

(or....well if anyone else is reading Bitch Planet, like the pink hologram woman)(and you should probably read Bitch Planet because holy numbnuts it's awesome)(/end tangent)

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I CAN SEND YOU ALL THE EBOOKS AND MOVIES IF YOU WANT

not that i am a militant HP fan at all, of course

[kawuli]

Haha I have read them! When I started my MSc one of my lab mates found out I hadn't and yelled at me and then loaned me all the books. I just haven't ever been in the fandom or what have you and I only read them the once so I don't know all the ins and outs.

Have not watched all the movies, though, I should add those to the download queue while I am in the land of fast Internet.

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+1 I think the movies should be required viewing ;)