So to me Peter Quill is totally a Hufflepuff. Do you agree?
MOST HUFFLEPUFF. ALL HUFFLEPUFF. I KEPT TURNING TO KAT IN THE MOVIE THEATRE AND WHISPERING KAT LOOK AT THE PUFF HE'S SO CUTE OH NO.
I'd say he's a Hufflepuff primary and a Puff secondary-- all his decisions are so effortlessly, beautifully Puff, and when he's at his best he accomplishes those decided goals with community building, decency, and effort. He respectfully asks and pays the man in the prison for his prosthetic leg; and his greatest victory in the movie is making a team--a family-- out of a bunch of losers... I mean people who have lost stuff. Puff everywhere.
But I do think he models Slytherin--he tries to act Slytherin because that's the culture he was raised in on the bounty hunters' ship. That's the social standing and performance expected of him. Even after he runs away he tries so hard to live up to it. (His running away was even him playing Slytherin, in a way). But wow is that not his cup of tea. Embrace your Puff, kiddo. Be proud. You saved the world with it.
Internship as an archivist for the Department of Mysteries.
6. What's the core of your wand?
Phoenix feather.
8. Will you be part of any organization???
Which ones do we see in the books? I wouldn’t be much into chess, Quidditch, or dueling… An experimental potions club though, yeah. Honestly I’d probably try to start up a club for the people in the back of Professor Binn’s reading furiously as they try to ingest the actual wonders of wizarding history. We’d trade books and ghosts and paintings to talk to. WOW how ghosts would change the face of the study of history.
Architecture of Hogwarts club, too. Unaware of the existence of the Marauder’s Map, I’d probably try to map the castle myself. Sunday afternoon escapades into the complicated, complex, chameleon parts of the castle with three compasses, a level, and a backpack of cartographical supplies.
14. Do you think you'll be a prefect or head girl/boy?
Probably not. I’d say no if they offered it.
15. Are you going to be a pure-blood or half-blood or muggle-born?
Half-blood.
18. Do you think you'll get a lot of detention? For what reason/s?
In my academic career, I have received a single detention—for reading in class.
(Then I read through detention).
20. Will you be supportive of your house's Quidditch team?
Well, I wouldn’t boo it. Now, some underwater hockey games in the lake? That I would cheer.
I love the idea of flying. Long-distance cross-country races appeal a lot more to me, though.
23. Will you subscribe to the daily prophet or the quibbler or other wizarding world media?
Coming from the Muggle world? Yes, definitely. More vitally, though, I’d try to get someone to set up an internet connection for me, so I could get Muggle news too. (Hey, hey, Kat, I bet we know someone in Ravenclaw who could manage that for us, yeah?)
24. Which part of the castle will be your favorite?
Assuming I could get someone to sneak me in, or I let the Hat Sort me there, possibly the Slytherin common room—I love the lake.
Or the kitchens. Yeah, the kitchens. I’d sneak in, ask the elves nicely to allow me access to a stand mixer or so, and then study while my almond-butter-and-chocolate cake and orange-cranberry scones and meringues baked.
32. On your o.w.l.s, what subject/s will you get an O in? Which ones do you think you’ll get a T on?
I test very well, so I’ll probably be alright.
33. How about in your n.e.w.t.s?
Same.
34. If you were a pure-blood, would you take interest in reading muggle literature?
If I was a pure-blood we’d be the Weasleys, pretty literally. All the Muggle lit you want.
42. What will your boggart be?
I don’t like things that can hurt me. But mine would probably be more along the lines of Molly Weasley’s.
46. Will you see the thestrals carrying the carriages?
Yes.
And then I would try to be their friends.
47. If you were invited to join the slug club, will you accept the invitation?
Yeah, I might go to some dinners—free tasty food, my friends, don’t knock it. But wow would I stay away from internalizing Slughorn’s general worldview or self-view.
49. What would your patronus be?
Octopus.
50. What memory will you think of when making a patronus?
Cuddle puddles. My little sister’s face on Christmas morning. A tea party on my front porch with my favorite teacher and good friends, and the look on one of my friends’ faces when I told her everything was gluten-, dairy-, and processed-sugar-free and she could EAT it instead of staring longingly. Drifting in freezing cold water, forty feet under the surface of the Pacific Ocean, staring up through a kelp forest at the sunshine raining down on me.
