The Owlery - How Would Voldemort Have Corrupted the Other Houses' Reputations?
Added 2025-04-13 16:00:27 +0000 UTC
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The divergent books make this concept fairly easy. Each faction values one virtue to the expense of another. For the Dauntless too much bravery and courage leads to cruelty and stupidity. For the Erudite too much intelligence and logic lead to vanity and arrogance. For the Amity too much peace and kindness leads to being passive, naive, and dishonest. For the Candor too much honesty leads to inconsideration and rudeness. For the Abnegation too much selfless leads to being stifling and neglectful. Whereas with Harry Potter, the characteristics of Slytherin lend to “evil.” Ambition, pride, and cunning can be positive or negative virtues. Too much determination, courage, and bravery can lead to bad virtues but aren’t themselves negative virtues. It’s the same with Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff, while their characteristics; learning, wit, wisdom, dedication, patience, and loyalty can lead to bad virtues, they aren’t virtues that are negative.
Sarah Jane
2025-04-18 15:50:08 +0000 UTCAs far as villans who could represent evil versions of Hogwarts houses besides Slytherin, I think the Ravenclaw one can apply to plenty of charecter. The Dr. Doom, Lex Luthor types are all people who use intelligence and wisdom for personal gains. I think a Ravenclaw Voldemort would be more the delved too deep into dark magic seeking knowledge sort of bad guy. For Hufflepuff, it's definitely harder. Honesty and loyalty are almost exclusively "good guy" characteristics. But if I had to pick something, I think that's more of the mafia types. Loyalty and to a lesser extent honesty, are theoretically big parts of that world. At least within the organization. Obviously that's not really how that works, but it's the best I can come up with. A Hufflepuff Voldemort would definitely play up the loyalty aspect. Maybe he's a bit more fair as far as giving back to his supporters. He's still at the top, but he places the Death Eaters in positions of power for their benefit as well as his own. I think a good example for Gryffindor is Luke Castellan from Percy Jackson. (I know you've said you're not fans of PJO, which I can not understand. As far as the YA fantasy genre, it's the only thing that comes close to HP imo.) He genuinely believes he's doing the right thing for the world and his friends, and he's definitely brave. To the point of voluntarily sacrificing his life (twice) for what he believes is right. (That's one more than Harry!) A Gryffindor Voldemort would be very similar to Slytherin Voldemort. The main difference would be that his failures would be more from lack of planning and over confidence than from arrogance. Either way, this seems like the next "What If?" series after "What if Hermione Was In Ravenclaw?"
Jake Ferreira
2025-04-16 21:00:24 +0000 UTC
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