This may be an ignorant question, but aren't "cliques" more of an American obsession? I mean, obviously English kids form groups of friends just like American ones do, but it seems like nerds, cool kids, geeks and jocks are more part of the American cafeteria idea--and they don't really fit the houses at Hogwarts. Slytherins aren't really described as the cool kids. Draco and Pansy arguably are, but Millicent Bulstrode doesn't really. Cedric Diggory isn't a geek and Cho isn't a nerd.
Not that I'm completely disagreeing because the houses obviously do sort people into natural groups that the kids then have to really work to break down--and then only if they choose to. I just don't know if they're based around stereotypes we'd remember from high school, exactly.
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Date: 2004-11-02 04:30 pm (UTC)Not that I'm completely disagreeing because the houses obviously do sort people into natural groups that the kids then have to really work to break down--and then only if they choose to. I just don't know if they're based around stereotypes we'd remember from high school, exactly.