Al Sev is the only one who matters because Jim Siri and Lily Lu are obviously intended to be duplicates of their paternal grandparents, who were, in the official canon view, well-adjusted Gryffindors with no issues to resolve. Al Sev is the oddball—the one who feels he doesn’t quite fit into the One Big Happy Gryffie Family. He is therefore the one with a story to tell, as he struggles with learning that, deep down, he’s just as much a noble Gryff as the rest. In the end, he’ll probably even take up pranking and become a star Seeker on the Gryffindor Quidditch team.
When I’m feeling ornery about the Next Generation, I imagine Al Sev becoming a defiant Slytherin teenager who dumps his first name altogether and shows the same contempt for Gryffindor that Sirius Black felt for his own family’s traditional House. (Let’s imagine Ginny screeching like Walburga.) And when I’m feeling merciful to a poor, shy little kid surrounded by a family with a history of bullying, I imagine him as a quiet, nerdish Ravenclaw who keeps his mouth shut and his head down (as his namesake advised Harry while slapping him around in a duel), and writes a revisionist history of the Vold Wars for his NEWT History of Magic project.
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Date: 2015-10-25 10:23 pm (UTC)When I’m feeling ornery about the Next Generation, I imagine Al Sev becoming a defiant Slytherin teenager who dumps his first name altogether and shows the same contempt for Gryffindor that Sirius Black felt for his own family’s traditional House. (Let’s imagine Ginny screeching like Walburga.) And when I’m feeling merciful to a poor, shy little kid surrounded by a family with a history of bullying, I imagine him as a quiet, nerdish Ravenclaw who keeps his mouth shut and his head down (as his namesake advised Harry while slapping him around in a duel), and writes a revisionist history of the Vold Wars for his NEWT History of Magic project.