Get Your Sorting Hat Out

[penfold_x]

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

Comments

[seta_suzume]

Kind of the same boat as Kawuli, not having much HP knowledge, but I definitely feel like Gale would be in the same house as Katniss. (I mean, I feel like, in general, Katniss and Gale are more similar and Peeta's more different)

You give some good examples about Rue and Plutarch and such! It's interesting.

[lorata]

The Rue thing sticks in my craw all the time with like 80% of fandom's portrayal of her. There's a really popular fic by a really popular author that I won't name names on that has her be this absolutely naive, clueless innocent who also presents as being maybe 8 years old, not 12 CHILD DEVELOPMENT THIS IS A THING PEOPLE but anyway and I'm like .... DID WE CONSUME THE SAME MEDIA OR DID WE NOT?!

The girl saved Katniss, thereby putting Katniss in her debt and ensuring her own protection. She flat-out lied about Peeta's safety, clearly hoping he bled out before it became a problem. She obviously cared for Katniss but that girl was playing to win, man. "Don't count me out just yet" indeed.

[seta_suzume]

Well, there's certainly all sorts of variant portrayals of all sorts of characters in this fandom, that's for sure. (or maybe I am/have been mostly involved in much smaller fandoms)

Definitely agree with you about her playing to win. She went a lot farther than the average 12 year old in the Games, that's for sure! She knew what skills she had and how to use them.

[penfold_x]

Kind of the same boat as Kawuli, not having much HP knowledge, but I definitely feel like Gale would be in the same house as Katniss. (I mean, I feel like, in general, Katniss and Gale are more similar and Peeta's more different)

Yes! I think that's the set up SC is going for--a young man who shares her background/interests v. the mysterious merchant kid. In fact, I think Katniss actually comments on this in the epilogue to MJ, when she says that in part she chose Peeta because she and Gale were too alike, burning with their anger, or something?