The four house system really does not fit most people, even if people have a dominant house, and it certainly doesn't take into account how people can change over time. It's very much artificial and limiting.


*nods* Or the way that people can be react to certain situations in one way but to other situations with a completely different dynamic.

And if you like Slytherin protagonists, you have GOT to read The Wizard Hunters by Martha Wells. What prompted me to read it was that I heard the author talking about how after she wrote it, she had a very hard time selling to a publisher, because her heroine didn't fit into any of the typical fantasy archtypes - she wasn't a warrior women who was hard on the outside and soft inside, or a mage, she was an 'unpowered' woman who figures out what she wants and then makes other people have to deal with it. Basically, read this book. It's the first of an awesome trilogy that has a TON of excellent things about it, including a well-drawn matriarchal society, a pairing where the lady is much more cold-blooded and ruthless than the dude, magic, alien invasions, and different worlds.)