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Q:I was thinking about your system lately and I was wondering if it’d be accurate to say that someone’s secondary is where they’re most likely to be “mis-sorted”? And by the way, thank you for making this lovely blog ‘cause it’s really useful for character stuff. - Anonymous

First point: It depends what you mean by “mis-sorting.” It’s very important to my heart to affirm that even if you’re a Hufflepuff Primary by the way we define it, and a Gryffindor Secondary, but you say your House is Slytherin? You’re a Slytherin. Green and silver, lives under the lake, wave those colors proudly, buy that scarf. Even if you intuitively “need-base” in Hufflepuff ways and charge like a Gryffindor, if the thing you want/value most/call your own is the green and silver, you’re a snake, love, good and true. This is a story about choice.

However, in terms of Sorting inside our sortinghatchats system, which is less a claiming and more of a personality descriptor and analysis: a secondary (or even a model) can distract from the other parts of the Sorting. 

I have strong opinions about the Pevensie children, for instance, that contradict with the classic sorting of Gryff Peter, Puff Lucy, Slytherin Edmund (let me rage against this), and Ravenclaw Susan. 

The way we sort them in Primaries (WHY they do things):

• duty-bound Peter is a Hufflepuff Primary
  
• shining, faithful, certain Lucy is a Gryffindor Primary
  
• methodical, deliberate Edmund, who decides to be Just and then never strays, is a Ravenclaw Primary
  
• and Susan, dear Susan, is a Slytherin (or potentially a Gryffindor) who reclaimed her own life.
  

However, that classic sorting lines up perfectly with what I think their secondaries are (HOW they do things):

• Brave Peter can be nothing but himself in the things he does (Gryffindor)
  
• Lucy builds her power with kindnesses that nearly have birds flying in circles around her head (Hufflepuff)
  
• Edmund is cunning and reactive, quick on his feet and improvisational, even if his reasons are hardcore Claw Primary (Slytherin)
  
• Susan’s practicality, logic, and general distress at the madness that is Narnia are pretty solid Ravenclaw Secondary
  

I do think it’s a common phenomena, that the Houses people assign others match the thing Kat and I like to call a secondary. I think secondaries tend to be “louder” than primaries—people don’t normally sit you down and explain the rationale and prioritizing that led to their life choices and mottos. They do things in front of you, and those secondary actions are a lot more apparent than the inner motivations that determine the primary.

The people who do get Sorted into their primaries (or their models! That, too, is surprisingly common I think) tend to have LOUD primaries (or be protagonists in whose heads you live intimately). 

Harry Potter himself, for instance, has a cute little Slytherin Secondary but a LOUD ALL-CAPS GRYFFINDOR Primary (and we’re conveniently privy to his innermost thoughts, which makes it more intuitive to sort him with his Primary first). Steve Roger’s stunningly effective Hufflepuff Secondary is overwhelmed by the sheer fervor of his Gryffindor primary and model. G(a)linda the Good Witch from Wicked has a Slytherin Primary so unapologetic that (to the audience, though not the citizens of Oz) it screams through even her three levels of Hufflepuff—secondary, model, and performance.

(Want to know more about what we’re talking about here? Check out our quiz and explanatory posts atsortinghatchats.wordpress.com)

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first impressions with edmund pevensie

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dedicated to my mutual that i noticed reading edmund fics all last night (and told me they read through my published fics to comfort themself) ily <3

⇢ your entire relationship will be based on how and when you meet. the same is true with practically everyone ever, of course the conditions of a meeting will affect how a relationship grows. however, this is especially true with edmund.

⇢ as his siblings can still strongly remember, he was nothing short of “a selfish idiot” back when they first fell into narnia.

⇢ if you meet him during that time, it’ll take quite a long time for you to warm up to him, if that even ever happens. depending on your own personality, it wouldn’t be too surprising if you never forgave him for how rude he was to you and the people around you.

⇢ if you met him a bit later, maybe on his second time returning to narnia, you’d be more likely to not hate him.

⇢ no matter when you meet him, it will definitely take some time for him to treat you well. he’ll mess up very often but as those mistakes get further and further apart in occasion, you can tell he’s gotten to know you much better and is putting in effort.