Haha Quidditch in bed. Yeah, Harry's kinda... not that much more evolved than Ron, sadly, whereas Draco was languidly having his hair stroked like a civilized person :> I like the Gryff-style boyish boom & bang, though I'm not so sure I'd invite it to bed, hashahaha.
When you press me on it, of course I'm not sure where I got that bit about it being canon Blacks are highly strung (was that the phrasing? sounds familiar somehow). Of course it's true that Sirius is um, normal(?!) but then he's also a Gryffindor (and who knows what that has to do with anything, really).
I suppose you could say that it's not like being either Black or Slytherin will mean you have to snap the whole way (naturally) but rather that they just succumb more to their own emotions, even if the sanity's not in question. This works with the water House classification, too; my point was that Slytherins are more vulnerable but that other Houses aren't actually less emotional. Umm, I think it's parallel to a discussion one could have about personalities in general-- like, a Feeling type vs a Thinking type, heh. Both may have extremely intense emotions, but while a introverted Feeling type would brood and simmer and an extraverted Feeling type would act out and have break-downs (whether or not it's a fatal break-down), a Thinking type-- like say, Snape or a lot of Ravenclaws, probably-- would just repress and sublimate and may actually go on dealing with these issues for a lot longer 'cause they don't see the light of day much.
The Weasleys are also quite emotional! But in a fiery way where they blow up and then blow over. The Blacks seem to brood and simmer more, to be high strung in a... uh... blacker way :> Harry's also very much emotional but not at all high strung, excepting OoTP-- which goes with what I was saying about responses differing moreso than basic component emotions. I don't mean end-result by 'response', either-- like, Draco being high strung & a Black doesn't mean he 'couldn't take it' in HBP, so it's just a question of greater danger of going all Bella under certain conditions, but regardless Bella is still not 'the norm'. Thank goodness, I mean, that would be quite messed up, and that's saying something among all the messed-upness already present among the Riddles & Blacks and so on ^^;
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2007-07-03 12:45 am (UTC)When you press me on it, of course I'm not sure where I got that bit about it being canon Blacks are highly strung (was that the phrasing? sounds familiar somehow). Of course it's true that Sirius is um, normal(?!) but then he's also a Gryffindor (and who knows what that has to do with anything, really).
I suppose you could say that it's not like being either Black or Slytherin will mean you have to snap the whole way (naturally) but rather that they just succumb more to their own emotions, even if the sanity's not in question. This works with the water House classification, too; my point was that Slytherins are more vulnerable but that other Houses aren't actually less emotional. Umm, I think it's parallel to a discussion one could have about personalities in general-- like, a Feeling type vs a Thinking type, heh. Both may have extremely intense emotions, but while a introverted Feeling type would brood and simmer and an extraverted Feeling type would act out and have break-downs (whether or not it's a fatal break-down), a Thinking type-- like say, Snape or a lot of Ravenclaws, probably-- would just repress and sublimate and may actually go on dealing with these issues for a lot longer 'cause they don't see the light of day much.
The Weasleys are also quite emotional! But in a fiery way where they blow up and then blow over. The Blacks seem to brood and simmer more, to be high strung in a... uh... blacker way :> Harry's also very much emotional but not at all high strung, excepting OoTP-- which goes with what I was saying about responses differing moreso than basic component emotions. I don't mean end-result by 'response', either-- like, Draco being high strung & a Black doesn't mean he 'couldn't take it' in HBP, so it's just a question of greater danger of going all Bella under certain conditions, but regardless Bella is still not 'the norm'. Thank goodness, I mean, that would be quite messed up, and that's saying something among all the messed-upness already present among the Riddles & Blacks and so on ^^;