I'm hoping my now-living-in-the-UK friend will have a chance to go and keep me posted on the real-time by liveblogging. But looking forward to your weekend-after post :)
My main condemnation will be that it simplifies things overmuch, and all the characters I like are complex!
It definitely does that! Are you familiar with the Sorting Hat Chats system, which relies on the Hogwarts houses, but also adds another dimension (or several) to it? I've found it to be a really neat framework to think about the more complex characters where the simple one-dimensional Hogwarts House system fails or comes down to picking one house out of a hat.
But, anyway, yeah, I'll wait for your actual post!
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My main condemnation will be that it simplifies things overmuch, and all the characters I like are complex!
It definitely does that! Are you familiar with the Sorting Hat Chats system, which relies on the Hogwarts houses, but also adds another dimension (or several) to it? I've found it to be a really neat framework to think about the more complex characters where the simple one-dimensional Hogwarts House system fails or comes down to picking one house out of a hat.
But, anyway, yeah, I'll wait for your actual post!