Angel!!! That’s so sweet, oh my gosh. Thank you, baby. 🥺

Thank you, friend! I’ve been thinking non-stop since watching ST3 that they all embody the traits for each Hogwarts House.

I know a lot of people have said in their tags they agree, but I’ve seen a few say Steve should be a Hufflepuff—some with the sidenote that Jonathan should also be a Gryffindor—and that’s fine, obviously, everyone has different perceptions and opinions. I agree they have traits of both, but personally I think it’s like Hermione and how she could have been a Ravenclaw but ultimately ended up in Gryffindor. Or even like Nancy, who, for all intents and purposes, seems like a Ravenclaw at first glance, but is undoubtedly a Slytherin when you take stock of things like her take-no-shit approach to getting her way. There’s an edge, something that tips the scales.

Steve’s whole character arc has been built on courage—brave, even to the point of recklessness, as is the Gryffindor way. He showed up to the Byers’ and ultimately stayed, big bad monster et al, to fend off the Demogorgon. He left the safety of the bus in season two when the demodog wasn’t taking the bait, then, back on the bus after more showed, put himself in between the kids and the demodogs twice. He intercepted Billy outside when he showed up at the Byers house looking for Max, and when Billy got past, Steve stepped in to fight him. Beaten and probably concussed, still voicing his protests about the kids going down into the tunnels, he still helps them set the hub on fire, reminded of his promise to keep the little shits safe. When they’re trying to exit the tunnels, he makes sure the kids get to safety first and then wraps his arm around Dustin protectively when the herd of demodogs runs past them towards the lab. He holds off the Russians with Robin’s help until Dustin and Erica can escape. The second it’s obvious Nancy and Jonathan and the rest of the kids are in danger, he rushes off and crashes the car into Billy’s to save them.

Jonathan is loyal to a fault (think only love makes you that crazy, and that damn stupid, which I hold fast to being about the Byers) and while that can be said about all four of them, loyalty and dedication—particularly to his family—is the driving force behind his character. I think back on his scenes with Will in particular, and Joyce, too, and I see the kindness and patience of Hufflepuffs. I think of his fight with Nancy in the car after they were fired and the scene in the elevator when he owns up to being wrong, and there’s their fairness and honesty and another core trait: hard work, because hard work is what put food on the table growing up even if it wasn’t much, because hard work is what got you the things money couldn’t, because hard work is ingrained in him from watching Joyce over the years.

Nancy is every bit a Slytherin: ambitious, cunning, achievement-oriented. The same “certain disregard for rules” as proven by her telling Jonathan, “We ask for forgiveness, not permission.” A strong sense of self-preservation. In the pursuit of something like justice or revenge or the truth, there’s not much, if anything, she won’t do, which is so reminiscent of, “Those cunning folk use any means to achieve their ends.” Even in the beginning, it was clear she was ambitious and more than just book smart. And fiercely loyal, same as the others, but mostly like a Slytherin. The same way someone intelligent isn’t immediately a Ravenclaw (which has always been a huge misconception) because there are different kinds of smarts, I think there are different kinds of loyalties. Dying for someone vs killing for someone, for example. Nancy would kill for the people she loves in a heartbeat.

Robin as a Ravenclaw is equally a no-brainer. “I can speak Spanish and French and Italian, and I’ve been in band for 12 years. My ears are little geniuses, trust me.” She’s proficient in languages. She translates a secret Russian broadcast in a day despite not knowing any Russian beforehand. She cracks the code. She gets the blueprints. She sees Erica and immediately realizes she’ll be able to fit in the vents. Her intellect is off the charts, she’s witty and can prove it with a sharp tongue and on-the-fly comebacks—or by calling you dumb in pig Latin—but ultimately she’s creative and open-minded in the way she thinks. Ravenclaw House values things like intelligence and wisdom, but just the same, it values things like individuality and originality and creativity.