Hi! I just discovered your blog and I love your Disney meta. I saw a rather old post of yours where you said that Ariel is the quintessential Ravenclaw and can I ask you why? I always associated her with Gryffindor because her fiery and reckless personality, so your opinion made me rather curious.
Thank you!
I associate Ariel with being very curious — she wants to learn and explore and understand.
She’s the kind who, to me, would get lost in libraries or museums or anywhere where there’s things to learn. She full of passion but it’s very much spurred on by a drive to understand and learn/see new things. To me, Ariel wants to learn what things are (“why does it... what’s the word? Burn?”) simply for the sake of understanding. She wants to learn because she’s curious.
While I’ve never been a big Potter fan, I lean toward Ravenclaws having an impetus to learn. They don’t have to actually be studious or bookish. With Ariel, I can’t think of any character I’ve come across (at least from Disney) who exhibits that more than her, so that’s where I (still) stand on that.
Hope that makes sense.
