I guessed Ravenclaw, on the basis that it sounds about right :p But I'm only saying that based on the very small amount of Holmes lore I've managed to absorb via osmosis over the years, having neither read the books nor seen the recent movie (I know, I know, I fail. They're both on my list, I swear!) It's amazing I've picked up anything at all really.
I say Watson is a Hufflepuff, because to hang around with the demonstrably volatile Holmes one would have to be insanely loyal. After a certain point, intelligence would suggest (probably at the top of its lungs and using rude gestures) that the sane course would be to get the hell out before he kills us; guile and sneakiness would be frustrated beyond bearing at the way they would be constantly found out, whilst ambition could not respond well to constantly being topped in every way; and blind bravery would have gotten itself killed long before.
By the same token, I believe Holmes to be more Ravenclaw than Slytherin. His only discernable ambition, as far as I can determine, is to know every-bloody-thing that's going on (even when it causes him pain, he would rather participate in solving a mystery than accept that there's something going on that he knows nothing about), his guile lasts only so long as finding out said answers and then unveiling them in suitably dramatic fashion; and while he is sneaky on occasion, is it really sneaky when five minutes later you're boasting to your best friend (and anybody listening at the door) all about how magnificently sneaky you were? On the other hand, he loves to know things, a hallmark of Ravenclaw.
Then again, I've had this argument before; everyone wants to see their favourite literary figures in their House, and I am a Ravenclaw. And how I wish I could welcome Watson in! But I think his tie is gold and black, not blue and silver (damn it).
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Date: 2010-01-28 12:11 pm (UTC)By the same token, I believe Holmes to be more Ravenclaw than Slytherin. His only discernable ambition, as far as I can determine, is to know every-bloody-thing that's going on (even when it causes him pain, he would rather participate in solving a mystery than accept that there's something going on that he knows nothing about), his guile lasts only so long as finding out said answers and then unveiling them in suitably dramatic fashion; and while he is sneaky on occasion, is it really sneaky when five minutes later you're boasting to your best friend (and anybody listening at the door) all about how magnificently sneaky you were? On the other hand, he loves to know things, a hallmark of Ravenclaw.
Then again, I've had this argument before; everyone wants to see their favourite literary figures in their House, and I am a Ravenclaw. And how I wish I could welcome Watson in! But I think his tie is gold and black, not blue and silver (damn it).