if it interests you and because your meta is extraordinarily penetrating about characters: how would you sort the batman in terms of Hogwarts houses? Thanks for a brilliant blog :)
Why thank you! That’s so sweet. 😄 I shall try. 💗✨Batman himself? Hm. Tricky.
He’s an adult, you don’t Sort people at that age, they’re at quite another stage of development. And who people grow up to be simply can’t be predicted by what they have the potential or the dream of at eleven.
This is firmly acknowledged and even a plot point in canon, which is pretty married in some ways to its own personality typing system. Let’s see.
Eleven-year-old Bruce Wayne with his parents’ murder behind him would come into Hogwarts technically qualified for any House, but unlikely to land in Ravenclaw or Hufflepuff without a strong family history or other attachment bias, because while he was entrenched in his devotion to his dead family and spent a lot of time with his nose in books at that point, study was a self-isolation mechanism as much as anything for him, and inasmuch as it wasn’t, it was for the use of the things he was learning. Not for their own sake, or even the sake of academic recognition or reward.
He’s most likely to wind up in Gryffindor, as are most superheroes tbh, because it’s the House specifically meant for the sort of people who throw themselves into nonsensical singlehanded heroic crusades. (Particularly if we assume him Muggleborn as per his canon reality, since I don’t think the Hat goes out of its way to be an asshole and being in Slytherin would not advance the ambitions of someone with his background.)
If you want to imagine that Batman arose within the context of the Wizarding World and project a Hogwarts backstory onto Wizard Batman, it gets a little more complicated. Gryffindor still works, of course, but it’s much less assured.
The Waynes don’t seem very likely to be a hereditary Slytherin family, but they could be, and the Kanes quite easily could be. Family history is important, both to Bruce and to the Hat. A Bruce whose longterm intentions are focused on changing or reforming things within the Wizarding world is much more likely to register as ‘ambitious’ on the Hat’s scoring system. Even if Dark Wizards killed his parents and Dark Wizards are something he wants to fight.
If his parents were still killed by a man with a gun but he’s from a pureblood background, or even half but the wizarding half is from an old family, like Harry, he’s potentially got a certain amount of anti-Muggle prejudice to work through at this age, because gun.
(Little Wizard Bruce’s strong feelings about the flawed criminal justice system having similar roots to Young Adult Albus Dumbledore’s susceptibility to the idea that the entire system needed overthrown, i.e. Muggle crimes against wizards were almost impossible to meaningfully prosecute due to the segregation policy, actually sounds like it could be a really interesting story premise, because it allows for such a personal growth curve and so much in-depth engagement with the setting.)
So Wizard Batman could easily grow up from a Slytherin student. This would be useful for his cover as a dilettante, since an ex-Slytherin with money is easy to dismiss as not at all the sort of person who runs around doing vigilante things in a mask. At least if the vigilante things don’t obviously advance their political agenda.
He’s also believable as a Ravenclaw, because Thomas seems like one and Bruce would want to go into his father’s House if he could get it, he’s like that, and he’s brilliant so he could hack it, the Hat wouldn’t deny him. This complicates pretending to be stupid later on, since literally everyone of any importance in his entire society has the means to pigeonhole him as clever, since what House someone belonged to in school is one of the first things most of their longtime acquaintance will know. But he can pretend to be so utterly disconnected from anything practical that it works out to about the same thing. Ravenclaw does include people like Luna.
Once again, being from money helps. He isn’t under any survival pressure to actually use his intelligence for anything.
I don’t know that he’d want to be a ‘puff, unless, again, his parents had been, which is certainly within the bounds of the plausible. Nothing about him is actually disqualifying, and in a way I can see the Hat being inclined to send him somewhere that would encourage him toward social bonding and positive reinforcement, for recovery purposes.
But unless honesty and dedication are your most truly outstanding or otherwise character-defining traits I suspect the Hat doesn’t send a lot of people to Hufflepuff who have strong elements of any other Houses’ defining trait unless they ask for it, since it needs to keep the numbers somewhat balanced and Hufflepuff is specifically designated for overflow.
Living Parents Bruce might get sent to Hufflepuff without asking, even if it didn’t run in the family, but he’s still more likely to wind up elsewhere.
XD Tl;dr Bruce Wayne is a well-rounded individual and context, context, context!
