Ahaha. I just can't see Ravenclaw. At all. Even with the definition that you're working with (cerebral v. drive for knowledge), Hornblower doesn't strike me as being cerebral so much as being deeply, profoundly emotional. I guess it's possible to be both cerebral and emotional, but Hornblower's self-involvement, to me, feels so tied up with emotion that it's less an issue of him being inside his head and more just an issue of him being trapped by his emotional makeup.
The main weakness of this is that I tend to concentrate on HH going CRAAAAAAAAZY in the Captain Hornblower trilogy than the ones where he's a little more balanced. XD And I tend to take the crazy from there.
I'd really, really love to see stuff about Hornblower's ambition being driven by cerebral stuff.
And yeah. Rowling doens't really show us a lot of the unpoliticized houses, but the way I always look at it, the books are almost entirely in Potter's time, after the war where people think that And the good/bad line gets significantly blurred by how James Potter is such a JACKASS (now that we know JKR thinks of Pensieves as giving the objective truth) and the stuff abotu Regulus/Snape possibly being a good guy and the humanizing stuff about Draco and Narcissa.
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Date: 2006-10-07 03:25 am (UTC)The main weakness of this is that I tend to concentrate on HH going CRAAAAAAAAZY in the Captain Hornblower trilogy than the ones where he's a little more balanced. XD And I tend to take the crazy from there.
I'd really, really love to see stuff about Hornblower's ambition being driven by cerebral stuff.
And yeah. Rowling doens't really show us a lot of the unpoliticized houses, but the way I always look at it, the books are almost entirely in Potter's time, after the war where people think that And the good/bad line gets significantly blurred by how James Potter is such a JACKASS (now that we know JKR thinks of Pensieves as giving the objective truth) and the stuff abotu Regulus/Snape possibly being a good guy and the humanizing stuff about Draco and Narcissa.