This was just a little something that came to mind when I took one of those shabby little online quizes. I responded a bit ruthlessly, and calculatingly (sp?) and was deemed a Ravenclaw. And so, this little monologue was brought to be. I might decide to turn this into a story, might not. Just making this clear, this is primarily for my own amusement. Enjoy as you will though.
Something that I always find sickly amusing is how most of the unthinking plebians that do their best at analyzing the houses of the great school of Hogwarts, is that they so often overlook the truly superior house. Of course, I refer to Ravenclaw house. They praise the 'cunning' of the Slytherins, or the 'bravery' of the Gryffindors. Sometimes, they even give the 'loyalty' of the Hufflepuffs. Rarely do they cite the intellects of the greatest one of all.
Slytherins..what use are they? Once, they actually took after their namesake; cunning, devious, and ruthless. Now, they are nothing more than malevolent brutes who know not the meaning of sublety, even when it hits them in the face. When Potter and his ilk prove more gifted at it than they, they just indignantly pass it off as luck. Gryffindors beating Slytherins in a game of wits! We Ravenclaws however, are by far the best at any game of subterfuge. However, what purpose do we have for just that, a game? We save out effort for the true trials we will face, once outside the enforced kids play inside these walls. Let us see how a Slytherin attacker, with their overly used, will-lacking, Dark Arts would fare against the superiorly honed prowess of a Ravenclaw defender. Ravenclaw house needs no such crutch to show our might. Why just settle for a simple killing curse, when you can do such things as summon fleshrending demons from the outer planes, to brutally lay waste to impertinent assailants? They are utterly useless, except mayhaps as unwilling workers and specimens..
Gryffindors...bravery is often mentioned in the same breath as foolishness. Sadly, I lean towards the opinion that they show foolishness more often than not. Go on, have your charge of the Light Brigade. Be slaughtered by the enemies defences, nigh-impenetrable to such a boil-brained assault. My house will instead weigh all the possible plans, and pick that of supreme efficiency. Why have a scatter-brained charge, when you can instead merely perform such feats as calling down orbital debris after creating an anti-apparation field, or advancing under a phalanx of meticulously crafted shield wards? Idiocy...they best fit as shock troops, dissipating the enemy shields with the mass-turned-energy of their bodies.
Hufflepuffs..there is little to be said to of them, except they are still the same sub-par minions as they have always been? If only they were a bit more intelligent, their usefullness would skyrocket...basic grunts.
Soon, when this little farce of competition has ended, and these irritating restrictions on what is 'right', 'fair', and 'humane' have been nullified, my housemates and I shall trod the seldom used path to greatness. We shall be those in power, we shall reign supreme...the so called purebloods should prepare, since such puerility will not be tolerated. In the new order, those who do not pass the bar, shall fall forever...
Until next entry,
Padma Patil