a vitally important question

[gogollescent]

Given the chance, how would you sort the Vorkosigan characters into Hogwarts houses?

Don't look at me like that. This is clearly key information that I am gathering. Is Cordelia the world's most ruthless Hufflepuff, or would she at eleven be hustled off to Ravenclaw, only later in life to develop interpersonal convictions? Does Miles con the hat into putting him into Gryffindor despite the fact that if cut him open you would find a great big S drawn in green on his heart? For that matter, where would Aral have wanted to be put when he was eleven, a pretty formative year for him by any yardstick? Are Illyan and his chip in different houses entirely-- no, don't answer that one--

And so on. 

This inquiry definitely not made for gruesome fusion research purposes of any kind, of course.

Comments

[melannen]

Hmm, I don't know. I think I would buy an interpretation of Alys as Gryffindor (certainly in a lot of fic where we get to see more of her, she's portrayed that way) and it's not that she's not brave (or manipulative, or hardworking) but her specific canon talents are all about knowing things - she knows fashion, she knows protocol, she knows social history and tradition and law, she knows aesthetics, she knows everyone who's relevant to Barrayaran power and all of their interconnecting relationships, she knows exactly how far she can push things and she knows how to build effective strategies for quiet long-term change - and she's happy doing all those things while being underestimated in the background in a blue-and-silver dress! The things she knows are women's sphere things, too, but it takes just as much intelligence and learning to know them and apply them.

(ETA: Ekaterin, on the other hand, is Gryffindor to the bone. She's all bravery.)

+1000

[gogollescent]

...re: Ekaterin. She's about the only major character whose placement I have no doubts about, if it comes to that.