Not To Hash Anyone's Squee....

[redbrunja]

I realize hypothesising what Hogwarts House a Hunger Games character would be in is just a fun fandom exercise but I feel like the debate about which House Katniss belongs to just goes to show what an awesome and complex character Katniss Everdeen is the inherent artificiality of that kind of personality-based division of individuals. Like, I think it tends to lead to a shallowness of characters because it leads readers and writers to think of people as tropes instead of individuals. Rowling didn't manage to pull it off and in situations like Divergent it just comes across and ridiculously arbitrary and nonsensical.

In other news, over at het_reccers the current challenge is 'first times.' Which I find... a promising challenge.

Comments

[whisperingwasp.livejournal.com]

Word. I think even Dumbledore thought that the hat placed too many limitations or expectations on his students because it judged them based on a small set of characteristics instead of looking at them as complex human beings. It's no wonder many of the students in Slytherin usually grew up to be morally grey or completely evil because everyone said that's how they were going to turn out.

[redbrunja.livejournal.com]

Exactly. The Houses were a bad idea, and Hogwarts really set Slytherin to be a great recruiting ground for Death Eaters.

[whisperingwasp.livejournal.com]

No doubt. It reminds me of how racism contributes to terrorism in western society, racist folk condemn and demonise muslims/mexicans/minorities of all sorts and they're surprised when a small minority of them grow up to make negative contributions to society. I love Rowling's books but I really do wish that she had acknowledged how unfairly treated the slytherins were.