Hey, I love Aristotle! I'm just so pleased to be able to include him in a discussion it goes to my head.
Or was that a character in a Waugh novel?
LOL! Isn't it great that you can't immediately tell? But yeah--think, after all, of what Voldemort wants: immortality. Something I would consider a curse!
This is a really interesting idea -- that every person tends to have one central or dominant virtue that they use to coordinate all the others. Have to think more about this.
I think I got it from some of the self-help/new-agey books I sometimes get sent at work. Though one version of the Enneagram I really enjoyed reading--personality systems are just addictive. Anyway, that was sort of the idea, that one virtue could often be your doorway into all the others.
Oh, Lockhart is such a Gryffindor! I don't know why, but I always assumed that, too.
He knows how to appeal to Hermione, so it would make sense if they spoke the same language, somehow. I think this is why it's really natural for readers to start getting interested in other "house personalities" and want to see the light and dark side of each. You can easily imagine how a generic "Ravenclaw" or "Hufflepuff" could be heroic or villainous. It's sometimes harder with Slytherin to imagine the good version, though. I mean, I enjoy a lot of Slytherin characters, but we don't get to see them being noble. Even Snape, who may have made a moral choice that's admirable, isn't noble except in fanon.
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Date: 2005-02-10 07:16 am (UTC)Or was that a character in a Waugh novel?
LOL! Isn't it great that you can't immediately tell? But yeah--think, after all, of what Voldemort wants: immortality. Something I would consider a curse!
This is a really interesting idea -- that every person tends to have one central or dominant virtue that they use to coordinate all the others. Have to think more about this.
I think I got it from some of the self-help/new-agey books I sometimes get sent at work. Though one version of the Enneagram I really enjoyed reading--personality systems are just addictive. Anyway, that was sort of the idea, that one virtue could often be your doorway into all the others.
Oh, Lockhart is such a Gryffindor! I don't know why, but I always assumed that, too.
He knows how to appeal to Hermione, so it would make sense if they spoke the same language, somehow. I think this is why it's really natural for readers to start getting interested in other "house personalities" and want to see the light and dark side of each. You can easily imagine how a generic "Ravenclaw" or "Hufflepuff" could be heroic or villainous. It's sometimes harder with Slytherin to imagine the good version, though. I mean, I enjoy a lot of Slytherin characters, but we don't get to see them being noble. Even Snape, who may have made a moral choice that's admirable, isn't noble except in fanon.