TO THE MAX
May. 21st, 2009 04:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Okay so I'm a total nerd, and the extent to which I take my random inclinations is a matter of proving it.
So last night I found myself thinking about the Hogwarts houses. Not so much the Harry Potter series, which I think I've pretty much fallen out of love with. It more or less started out about general nerdish ways of sorting characters (which, if you can think of any besides D&D alignment, Hogwarts houses, and ASOIAF houses let me know, that doesn't feel like enough to make a meme of it, but I'd like to with a couple more).
Next thought train, cross houses and naming them, then in taking it TO THE MAX I decided every combination of houses should be named. So this afternoon I've been doing that. But now that I've discovered the naming system isn't directly representative of the relative weight the houses should have in the naming set they're in (if a character is Gryffindor, then Slytherin, with a touch of Ravenclaw, the number letter from Slytherin should not outnumber the number for Gryffindor). Yes I went though and numbered the number of letters from each components, plan to put it into percentages, and then see if I can position them better that way, even if it means they're not necessarily used in order of intended weight.
This was supposed to be a reasonably sized meta on the pros and ons of the houses that JKR didn't necessarily get into and that a lot of characters fall into a couple of different categories just to give examples. But no I had to go to heightened levels of nerddom for it.
So last night I found myself thinking about the Hogwarts houses. Not so much the Harry Potter series, which I think I've pretty much fallen out of love with. It more or less started out about general nerdish ways of sorting characters (which, if you can think of any besides D&D alignment, Hogwarts houses, and ASOIAF houses let me know, that doesn't feel like enough to make a meme of it, but I'd like to with a couple more).
Next thought train, cross houses and naming them, then in taking it TO THE MAX I decided every combination of houses should be named. So this afternoon I've been doing that. But now that I've discovered the naming system isn't directly representative of the relative weight the houses should have in the naming set they're in (if a character is Gryffindor, then Slytherin, with a touch of Ravenclaw, the number letter from Slytherin should not outnumber the number for Gryffindor). Yes I went though and numbered the number of letters from each components, plan to put it into percentages, and then see if I can position them better that way, even if it means they're not necessarily used in order of intended weight.
This was supposed to be a reasonably sized meta on the pros and ons of the houses that JKR didn't necessarily get into and that a lot of characters fall into a couple of different categories just to give examples. But no I had to go to heightened levels of nerddom for it.