Alternate Hogwarts House Personalities

[zelempa]

 MBTI in Fiction classifies fictional characters by MBTI personality type and Hogwarts house. This is objectively awesome. It's made me think once again about how woefully inadequate the Hogwarts house system is as a classification system.

I'll go on record anytime as saying that I love, love, love the MBTI. I don't care that it has no scientific

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[alex51324]

Yes, those are better! If I were writing in a world based on the "virtues" one, I'd want to explore the "opposing vices" angle in a different way: which vices does each cardinal virtue encourage? Gryffindors=recklessness, stubbornness; Hufflepuff = indecision, enabling, etc. I mean, those are just my first few ideas.

Then I remembered that somebody's already done that--have you read/encountered the Divergent series? It's a YA dystopian trilogy (featuring a love triangle, quelle surprise) about a society where everyone is divided into groups (called "factions") based on a cardinal virtue. The heroine is born into the one devoted to generosity and selflessness; at the society's coming-of-age ceremony thing, she goes into the one known for bravery. There's another focused on friendship, and one that's a Ravenclaw knockoff; I think there are some others that I forget, but maybe it's just the four. Anyway, the heroine's journey in the series is all about realizing that prizing one virtue and denigrating all the others leads to some