Again, Lupin nodded. "They're good games to learn to play. Since they affect so much. As long as we remember not to be tricked into thinking they reflect the true nature of anyone involved. I've fallen prey to that along other lines." Sirius had had to work to shake it too—though it was more a matter of letting himself stop repressing the nagging rejection of the idea he'd always had. "I also wish I hadn't let Houses come between me and few a classmates, back then. I might have had more friends." (Or if he hadn't been so singularly fixated on the ones he had. …If he'd known in advance…?) "Some people speculated that Gryffindor is the House one has to choose, since people get into it who seem to have qualities of others. I was told I'd make a good Ravenclaw. Though I identified more with Hufflepuff. Being put in Gryffindor always mystified me."
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Again, Lupin nodded. "They're good games to learn to play. Since they affect so much. As long as we remember not to be tricked into thinking they reflect the true nature of anyone involved. I've fallen prey to that along other lines." Sirius had had to work to shake it too—though it was more a matter of letting himself stop repressing the nagging rejection of the idea he'd always had. "I also wish I hadn't let Houses come between me and few a classmates, back then. I might have had more friends." (Or if he hadn't been so singularly fixated on the ones he had. …If he'd known in advance…?) "Some people speculated that Gryffindor is the House one has to choose, since people get into it who seem to have qualities of others. I was told I'd make a good Ravenclaw. Though I identified more with Hufflepuff. Being put in Gryffindor always mystified me."