Like a lot of Ravenclaws, Sonny is more of a feeling than actual proveable evidence, and you could point him into almost any other house, but when watching In The Heights, I always feel like he’s more of a Ravenclaw.
You can see this in 96,000-
With ninety-six thousand, I’d finally fix housin’
Give the barrio computers with wireless web browsin’
Your kids are livin’ without a good edjumication
Change the station, teach 'em about gentrification
We pay our corporations when we should be demonstratin’
Racism in this nation’s gone from latent to blatant
I’ll cash my ticket and picket, invest in protest
Never lose my focus 'til the city takes notice
And you know this man! I'll never sleep
Because the ghetto has a million promises for me to keep!
Sonny seems to be the only one in the group that has a clear idea of ways he could actually cause change- though changing the world is a pricey endeavor and 96,000 certainly wouldn’t cover the whole bill, as a Ravenclaw would, Sonny clearly has put a lot of thought into this.
This is also evident in Carnaval del Barrio, when everyone else is celebrating and throwing caution to the wind and Sonny is the only one who’s remaining with sensibility about what all of this actually means:
Listen up, is that what y’all want?
We close this bodega, the neighborhood is gone!
They selling the dispatch and they closing the salon
And they’ll never turn the lights back on, ‘cause we are powerless, we are powerless
And y’all keep dancin’ and singin’ and celebratin’
And it’s gettin’ late and this place disintegratin’
Though for me, one of the most Ravenclaw lines I’ve ever seen is in the Finale, after Usnavi sees the grate.
“Shhh. He’s forming an artistic opinion.”
That just seems to fit Ravenclaw so much better than any other house.
Musicalssorted official stamp on Sonny is that he is a Ravenclaw! Tune in tomorrow for a Hufflepuff.
