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vrangr-uluthrek replied to your post: Please pick hogwart houses for the Stark kids. I…

I agree with like all of them but I always thought Arya was more of a slytherin

i’m gonna have to disagree with you there. arya is definitely not a slytherin. yes, arya is very intelligent and cunning, but unlikes slytherins she never uses her cunning for her own gain. she isn’t ambitious at all. arya only does what she has to do to survive, not for her own personal gain or glory. also, arya’s “i hate everyone” thing that’s often associated with slytherins isn’t by any means a core part of who she is. arya doesn’t hate people at all, she loves them. arya made friends with everyone at winterfell, including the smallfolk, bakers, blacksmiths, etc. and she makes close friends wherever she goes. arya only feels intense hatred towards people who have wronged her and her family. she doesn’t kill people because she enjoys it or for her own personal gain - she does it because her father taught her that “the man who passes the sentence should swing the sword” - to get justice for her family. arya’s also always putting others ahead of herself. she doesn’t abandon lommy, hot pie or weasel when gendry suggests they should bc they’re slowing them down, and she rushes into a fight w/ needle in hand bc she refuses to let anyone else die for her the way syrio did. arya is a classic gryffindor: brave, darling, loyal, reckless, etc.

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acanoeandlifejackets

For the anon that wanted more Hogwarts AU, I know this isn’t what you had in mind but hope you like it? Link to the AU

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Daenerys Targaryen + Traits from each of the Hogwarts’ Houses

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bitchfromtheseventhhell

Which ASOIAF characters would be Hogwarts professors of?

this is a fascinating ask and i’ve been chewing on it a lot and am not sure my answer is the best answer but here we are.

i’m going to focus on each class–rather than character–and give an explanation for who i think would be best suited. i’m going to stick to major characters (not nec. pov characters, but characters who figure importantly) and see how that works for me. i grabbed the classes from the hp wikia. i’m also throwing in some short descriptors where i feel like the subject is less examined bc it doesn’t happen in harry’s perspective in the books.

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yennefers-geralt

Arya and Dany: Hufflepuffs and Gryffindors

After posting this gifset, there was some debate about the Hogwarts sortings for Arya and Daenerys with some insisting that they were both Slytherin. So I thought I would explain why I see them as fitting into Hufflepuff and Gryffindor rather than the other two houses. This got long, so I’m putting it under the cut.

TL; DR: Even though both characters have Slytherin and Ravenclaw traits, it is, IMO, their Hufflepuff and Gryffindor characteristics that most significantly form their characters, influence their choices, and represent their values.

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bitchfromtheseventhhell

on the subject of gryffindor sansa, one of the things i noticed during my sansa reread was that one of the major things that sansa appreciates about littlefinger is what she perceives to be his boldness:

I am not your daughter, she thought. I am Sansa Stark, Lord Eddard’s daughter and Lady Catelyn’s, the blood of Winterfell. She did not say it, though. If not for Petyr Baelish it would have been Sansa who went spinning through a cold blue sky to stony death six hundred feet below, instead of Lysa Arryn. He is so bold. Sansa wished she had his courage. She wanted to crawl back into bed and hide beneath her blanket, to sleep and sleep. (Sansa, AFFC)

Feeling near as bold as Petyr Baelish, Alayne Stone donned her smile and went down to meet their guests. (Alayne I, AFFC)

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bitchfromtheseventhhell

@quierosernauha replied to your post “@ariannenymerosmartell replied to your post “@quierosernauha replied…”

damn voldemort, now Slytherin HAS to be the evil house for everyone…. but she has MANY sly trait: strong leader, ambitious(in a good way), self-preservation(life kinda forced that one), CLEVER RESOURSFUL DETERMINATED, disregard for the rules… she is just not evil

A few things:

1) I love me a good Hogwarts House debate. They’re the most fun.

2) I don’t for a second think Slytherin=evil. I also don’t think that @ariannenymerosmartell was trying to imply that.

I still disagree with you and will hold it to my guns that Arya is a Gryffindor; the exception that I like and accept is Arya as a Gryffinpuff.

The thing about Gryffindor and Slytherin is that they’re very similar. Those things you describe above: strong leader, determined, disregard for the rules (see: Harry James Potter)–those are both Gryffindor and Slytherin traits. Gryffindors can also be ambitious (Percy Weasley). Gryffindors can also be clever and resourceful (Hermione Granger; also Harry, the boy isn’t dumb @ the HP fandom please stop). So it comes down less to those “traits” so much as what fuels them, and that’s to me where the Slytherin argument for Arya falls apart.

To me what makes a Slytherin is not the ~evil~, it’s the sense of putting oneself (and one’s community) first. It manifests as ambition most frequently, but I also think it appears in that “strong leader” and “cunning” that you mentioned above. Whereas Gryffindors put the “right” before the self. And that’s Arya to me. Arya grapples intensely with self-effacement, and she puts herself on the line repeatedly in the name of saving her friends and her pack, and while I think you could make an argument for saying “that’s her pack, that’s her people,” (especially in the case of running after Gendry after the Mountain’s Men get him), it’s her righteousness (not a predominantly Slytherin trait) that fuels things like her list.

When it comes to self-preservation…I actually am not sure I see it. It strikes me as very much like Harry Potter (there are tons of Harry/Arya parallels, though the ones in that gifset are mostly “houseless”). Preserve the self to keep fighting the fight, which I think plays in with Arya’s self-effacement theme–the fight is a major part of what drives her which is why she hurts so much when she thinks that her pack is dead and gone, not herself.

I agree with @ariannenymerosmartell:

there’s cunning and there’s craftiness. I think Arya is crafty– she can get herself into and out of situations in the least harmful way possible. Cunning, I see more as, "i’m gonna do it no matter the cost”… There’s a ruthlessness to cunning that separates it from craftiness.

Arya’s craftiness can be brutal: Weasel Soup; tricking Jaqen. But I think that outside of the extreme of Harrenhal, she does have boundaries of what she is willing/not-willing to do, unlike Littlefinger who–moral judgements about Slytherins aside–doesn’t have boundaries for what he’s willing to do in order to get what he wants.

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