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

[azurelunatic]

Mark is Slytherin in business dealings, but has enough FOR VORKOSIGAN AND BARRAYAR! HONOR! drilled into him that he jumps Hufflepuff (home, hearth, hard work) if the chips are down.

[gogollescent]

I dunno, though, I almost want to discount that kind of intrafamilial bond; after all, Slytherins are a pretty tightknit bunch, too, going by the most prominent examples we have in the HP books. Loners like Snape and Voldemort are the exception rather than the rule: in general, you've got these claustrophobic old families who serve their own bloodline first and foremost-- which is pretty much in line with Mark's approach to his relations, I think, once he gets over the instinct to assassinate them.