Get Your Sorting Hat Out

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lorataprose sent me a link to a fan's sorting of the Hunger Games characters into the Hogwarts houses. She didn't like a lot of the author's picks, and I definitely agreed (Gale as a Slytherin? The man who turned down his One True Love's offer to run off into the woods in order to fight a seemingly hopeless battle for justice? Just because you don't like a

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[xanify]

I feel like Johanna is definitely Gryffindor - I didn't really think she pretended to be weak so much as she discovered late in the game that she was strong.

Yes on Rue, omg. And Katniss never puts it together, either, which is also amazing in an entirely different direction.

[kawuli]

Johanna, yeah, I kind of like the "she wasn't totally faking, she was actually really scared" characterization a la deathmallow, it seems like the sort of thing the Capitol would do, to take that and twist it into "oh wasn't she so clever!"

And Katniss never puts it together, either, which is also amazing in an entirely different direction.
Katniss really is oblivious sometimes, huh. Can be kind of annoying in your POV character.

[penfold_x]

IDK, I guess I'm in the minority, but I could easily see the Johanna we meet in CF pulling off the fake-weakling thing. It's one of the best strategies I can think of for someone as diminutive as Jo. I like the idea that she was clever about it, rather than almost breaking down and just happening to get lucky. (But I'll also admit I don't put a lot of thought into her characterization because she's not in my list o' favorites)

[kawuli]

Oh I could kind of see it either way, or a hybrid where she really was scared and then realized she could play that into an advantage.

I find Johanna really interesting actually, I just don't know how to write her at all.

[penfold_x]

Yeah, me neither? And, er, Eibhlin blames Jo for Wiress' death, so that doesn't help.

[kawuli]

ah, yeah whooops. that would make things tricky.

(the more I write Wiress the sadder I am about her having basically a psychotic break and then dying, grrrrrrrrrrr)

[seta_suzume]

For the record, I feel the same as you in that I could imagine the Johanna we meet as capable of pulling off the fake-weakling thing! Ultimately, I think I tend to prefer to think of it as something of a hybrid thing like Kawuli, really, to try and capture what I like best of both ideas? ^^; Where she was actually scared at first at the reaping, but rather than trying to subsequently act tough and make up for it, she decided to purposely keep acting as weak and frightened as possible.

(and then because I picture that she had adopted this strategy independent of her mentor, the Seven mentors were also sort of thrown for a loop when she switched gears)

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(That would make sense, especially as it seems Johanna doesn't have a lot of respect for them)

[seta_suzume]

(...Your Own Kind didn't get to show Reinhold as a mentor, but I feel like Kayta and Reinhold could never quite grasp the potential team aspects of mentoring and this fractiousness didn't do any favors to their tributes or set a helpful example for the Victors after them)