*laugh* Beauxbetans in all its punnish glory is fantastic. She probably looks upon all the Sorting as archaic and a little crazy, and probably lobbies for the entire system to be abolished...

Miles, possibly the first person to ask the Hat what its elephant is.

Re Illyan - hm, I think what calls out to me is that his very dispassionate observer status and the ability to hold multiple realities in his head strikes me as very much a Claw trait. Baby!Illyan in Shards isn't a Slytherin either, and too fade-into-the-background to be Gryff or Puff...