Sorting the Doctor into Hogwarts Houses (Doctor Who Meets Harry Potter) 

I like the idea, that the Doctor tried to distance himself from Slytherin after the Great Time War. Make Sense.

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@@juliej7934 That's hilarious, thanks for sharing!

RichardM8422 haha no problem 😂

@@juliej7934 I stand corrected

Like Jean-Juc Picard - the most British Frenchmen in the Galaxy!

This made me laugh out loud. XD

12 is Headmaster

Twelve needs to switch per season: 8: Slytherin 9: I'd say Hufflepuff 10: Ravenclaw

YES LOL

12 is a Slytherclaw that transitions into a Ravenpuff throughout his tenure imo

Deathlygunn i’ve made this connection until now and now i can’t unthink it

I can’t watch him without wishing he was played by Matt Smith. They considered him for the role by the way.

Ooooo I think of 11 as a Ravenclaw...until now... very good link and suggestion. Great thought!

well fun fact Matt Smith was approached to play Newt Scamander but had to turn it down because of his commitments on The Crown.

Eddie Redmayne channeling Matt Smith was glorious to see. Newt is one of my favorite male leads in a movie because he subverts or just ignores so much of what the audience EXPECTS male leads to be. He's not an action hero, he's not outgoing and confident. He's just a guy with lots of book smarts and a lot of love in his heart. My feelings for the latest movie aside, I love Newt to death.

I'm not particularly fond of 9th but that line still has me in tears EVERY time I hear it, so yes, hes a Puff!!!

Plus I feel like Hufflepuff is a very working class blue collar house and I'm proud of it 😤😤😤 loyalty family and hard work, that's our boy 9

@@alim.9801 agreed

Brian? You mean Graham, right? Because I don't think that Rory's dad counts as a companion. :P

@@mrdoctorgilmore - Squib 😂

Rose: Slytherin Martha: Gryffindor Donna: Hufflepuff Amy: Slytherin Rory: Hufflepuff Clara: Gryffindor Bill: Hufflepuff Graham: Hufflepuff Ryan: Gryffindor Yaz: Ravenclaw

Galactic yo yo it’s Gryffindor nor Griffindor

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This. This is nerdy stuff indeed.

There are no more time turners The doctor has a very big time turner. With circles all over the place.

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Doesn't work on wood until 11th. When War, 10th and 11th thought they were trapped in that dungeon War started a calculation to work on wood in the Sonic that completed by 11th's incarnation.

@@lunestiacrescent827 no, he set a calculation to be able to resonate and disintegrate that particular door, as far as I'm aware it still didn't work on wood after. I don't actually remember if he ever uses it on wood after that moment

Honestly, ive only seen 9-11, I'm trying to catch up by finishing 11's chronologically, and I have to agree. The doctor seems to be trying to cling to Hufflepuff traits as it's imo the most empathetic traits. I even get a sense that 10 is a bit of a Hufflepuff, but I totally agree hes a Gryffindor bc of his confidence. Watching 10 I very much got the vibe that he really loves humans and the worlds in general and wants to protect them, but he does have that cocky grandiose of a Gryffindor.

That would also explain why from 9 onwards there's a noticeable lack of any slytherin incarnations. The war doctor was, by necessity, a slytherin so it would make sense that all the incarnations of the doctor after him would instinctively shy away from any characteristics related to that version of themselves. Also it's interesting that before the war doctor, slytherin was the more common house in general, with even some of the others placed elsewhere having slytherin potential, yet that completely vanished afterwards.

I totally agree, nice comment!

I love your analysis so much 🖤💛🖤💛

@@alim.9801 thanks

Industrial-Strength nerdom is the most effective form of nerdom. Just be careful not to get it on your skin. Super-concentrated, that stuff.

Second that

I third that

Fourth that!! 😁

Neutral. All except the war doctor

Chaotic Good

M. Ch. no Vulcan? 😢

That is so geek it hurts!

I wrote the Klingon to Judoon dictionary, but the other way around there's no hope.

Please tell me such a dictionary exists? And where can I get my hands on one? I've always wanted to read Lord Of the Rings in the original Klingon.

@@Katherine_The_Okay Sorry - you're gonna have to do with Klingon and Sindarin two-way dictionaries to Volapük. They were privately printed in Gibraltar if I reckon...

I wonder if Eddie Redmayne drew some inspiration for Newt from the 11th Doctor; there are so many similarities between the two characters.

I agree, Hufflepuffs always tryna keep it light "Ur dying u have 4 minutes" "Damn 4 minutes I'm bored yall got games or smthn??" Gets me every time 😂😂

as a Ravenclaw, I can confirm

Luna is superficially scientific in a very left field, unconventional and illogical way. She knows things that turn out to be true and real, its just that most people are new or uninitiated or blind to the phenomena and theories she presents. Her whole family are devoted to experiments and heedless of risks involved. The Fourth Doctor has sufficient courage and self-esteem and comradeship to be a Gryffindor but is in practice always distracted in a very Ravenclaw manner and not very deeply people-oriented. Reminds me of Hermione in blending the two aspects, but he is, like Luna, interested in strange phenomena and prone to very dodgy ad hoc theories, AKA making things up, while collecting data. 12th Doctor very like, only he tends to persevere in his quirky investigations to find deeper details, and this makes him more grounded, more accountable to rationality and more capable of feelings toward unusual characters that impress him. I would tend to buy to notion that Missy commands his loyalty due to their shared roots and heritage than to a sense of experimentalism. 12 and Clara really got into each other's heads and hidden personality traits and this led to an almost dangerous co-dependence with each manipulating the other to new excess, so they shared Slytherin tendencies, at least he chose to relate to Clara's Slytheriness. Well down below others argue Four is totally Slytherin and I can see that. His lunacy and distraction could all be an act to get others to dismiss him. I remember when he ran for President of Gallifrey to escape charges, and everyone totally bought his being drunk on power. I wonder if Trump is a Slytherin now.

As a ravenclaw I can confirm that too

I am a ravenclaw so I agree to this there are 2 types of ravenclaws 1st is the smart brainy intelligent ones 2nd is the creative wacky kind like Luna lovegood , Which explains why you I’m in the house x

Thanks, as a Ravenclaw I feel somehow flattered! Not that they never called me a weirdo, there's an Andalusian expression once applied to me by an office colleague: "Weirder than a green dog" 🤭🤭🤭

They all seem to do that though. It’s a fundamental quality of The Doctor that he will always prioritise the lives of others over his own life if it really comes down to it.

@@superraegun2649 that's true certainly but the likes of the Seventh Doctor and the Twelfth Doctor are more happy to sacrifice lives to save the greater majority. Whereas the Fifth Doctor is so sick of the death and destruction around him and the responsibility being on his shoulders that his desperate its not going to come to that, whereas the Twelfth Doctor would probably not stress himself about it as much

I think we can agree that some doctors present themselves differently to how they are inside. For example, 7 presented himself cheery and kind but was the darkest doctor and would do bad things to meet an end. The 9th doctor presented himself as ruthless and dark but when it came to it, he chose to die a coward than kill everyone. I feel 13 might be dark but present herself as kind as 12 said to be kind before he regenerated. But I feel she has some bad morales suffocating those spiders and willing to sacrifice Ryan's dad and not caring for people's feelings like when Ryan got slapped or Graham lost Grace. Some people present themselves differently to cover up their insecurity. A shy person might present themselves as confident to cover up their insecurity of being a lonely uncharismatic shy person.

@@thechosenone1691 that is certainly true with the 7th, 9th and 12th Doctors. You may be right with 13 but I think those moments are just inconsistencies in the writing. At her core 13 seems to be against any form of violence

@@tardisnet9487 Yes, I like the juxtaposition of their interior and exterior. They present themselves differently to who they really are to protect their insecurities. With 13 I guess we will find out as we don't really know much about her yet, as 7 didn't show his dark side until his second season. Depends if they make Jodie darker or keep her light.

True but most griffindors I think would have to much of a morale complex to work with the master even under the situations of the time war

Yess!! People are finally realizing that you can be a smart, hardworking, cunning, brave, whatever person and be in huffle. Being in hufflepuff doesn't mean you're just friendly and humble and that's it. We got more flavor than that!!

in ten years maybe shes not quite old enough yet!

@@tmartin6300 I'm aware and Luna is only 15 at the time

@@tmartin6300 I did

Omg from here on out I will ONLY refer to River as the missus 😂😂

RedClaw87 I would argue that Ten had the Griffindor’s hubris. Slytherin’s self assuredness comes from the idea that they personally are better than everyone else. Griffindor’s arrogance comes from the belief that they are infallibly on the right side. Ten always considered himself on the moral high ground. Not the most powerful, the most right.

I would argue that ten was a literal Harry Potter case. He had elements of both Gryffindor, through his belief in his own moral high ground, as seen when confronting Harriet Jones, but he also just thinks he’s inherently better than people, and acts like a Slytherin, as shown through his initial treatment of Mickey, him disregarding the laws of time in Waters of Mars, and him saying to Lumic “I’d call you a genius except I’m in the room. He even tries to talk his way out of everything and quests for knowledge like a Ravenclaw. I think it’d be a Hat stall, followed by the hat placing him in either Gryffindor or Slytherin, as per his choice, and 10 would choose Gryffindor.

I would disagree with the point of The Fires of Pompeii. In that episode he doesn't initially leave because he doesn't care about the people of Pompeii. He obviously does, all you have to do is look at him to see that. He doesn't save anyone because he thinks that he can't, and so he doesn't try. Donna finally convinces him to because she makes him realize that he could at least save _someone_ , even if he can't save everybody. He keeps Martha around not just because he wants someone to travel with, but because he likes her and wants her to travel with him. He only realizes that he needs someone to travel with him either while or after Martha traveled with him. It wasn't so much that he didn't have morals, just that he sometimes lost track of what they were. He lets his rage get the better of him, which I would argue is a very Gryffindor trait to have. Admittedly he was a bit arrogant and cocky, which is a very Gryffindor trait, but it wasn't so much of a superiority complex until he couldn't stand to hear people dying when he knew that he could do something about it, even though it meant breaking the rules. In breaking the rules it temporarily made him think that he was above the rules, until Captain Brooke's suicide snapped him out of it. Also, by the Dreamdoctor, do you mean the Dream Lord?

@@inkmaster5480 I completely agree with you (and the video's sorting as well). Because basically, what always annoyed me with the Gryffindors and Harry Potter and his friends was exactly what unnerves me with Ten. So yes - that all makes complete sense ;-) " He only realizes that he needs someone to travel with him either while or after Martha traveled with him. "

@@inkmaster5480 Point well made!

Mine too ! I think you could make an argument for griffindor, slytherin and ravenclaw with him. I can definitely see how slytherin would fit him.

Tenant played Crouch Jr in Harry Potter so I immediately thought Slytherin

I know, great outfight, if you go back and watch 4th DID wear a tie on occasion, not a slytherin one though!

One ambitious moment doesn’t really define your entire personality. By that standard, Eleven is a slytherin because he ambitiously went to rescue Amy and take down that entire organization. And saying he “chooses his companions very carefully” doesn’t feel right since the only person he said “no” to was Mickey in the first episode. Twelve uses his wit to scare people more often than Eleven does. Eleven doesn’t really use his words to scare people. It happened in his first episode, but that was after he already did something to end the threat. Almost every episode he succeeds in is from his actions and not his talking. Twelve on the other hand has spoken his way out of a few situations. It’s not every time he succeeds, but with the Zygons, the Mummy, Missy and a couple of others, it’s his words that win the day.

@@yonatanyonatano1192Oh 9 definetly had high standards for companions. So much of S1 is about what does or does not qualify a companion, there's Mickey, but he also kicked out Adam and even Rose temporarily and was reluctant about Jack.

@@Ben-vf5gk That's not based on race or class, though. His standards are purely from a moral and personal level. Choosing who your friends are based on your personal experiences is something everyone should be doing. It doesn't make you ambitious. Ron probably would never be friends with Draco even if their families didn't have a rivalry. All of the Marauders chose not to be friends with Snape, but they were still Gryffindor.

@@yonatanyonatano1192 Aside from the fact that he seems to have a preference for working class companions I was only replying to you saying " he chooses his companions very carefully doesn’t feel right since the only person he said “no” to was Mickey in the first episode." It wasn't just Mickey, so much of S1 is about what does or does not make a good companion.

@@Ben-vf5gk I was talking about how he initially chooses a companion. I think their actions after being allowed to travel with him makes that an entirely different decision.

Haha

Ravenpuff? I like it.

Where would you put the War Doctor?

But he's also the clostest to Dumbledore in characterisation. Remember - Dumbledore, just like the second Doctor, had this person of the loveable old guy that appeared as a grandfather or fathre figure to those around him, but in reality he was a manipulative puppet master just like the seventh Doctor was. And Dumbledore was a Gryffindor. Plus, the novels later hinted at the Doctor not being Merlin, but that another Time Lord was Merlin and that the Doctor basically just babysat him.

@TheBobBrom 7 is still the darkest incarnation to date. You never doubt his end-game goal for the greater good, but you will question the methods he employs to achieve it, despite the affable and charming hat-tipping and cheeky smiles. Those are just masking the devious mastermind at work. Manipulating his 'pawns' (companions), his enemies, the schemes wrapped within schemes, wrapped within schemes. If the War Doctor was never to exists and you needed to pick one of the normal incarnations for the Time War, 7th Doctor would have been your best bet. He would do whatever it took without a doubt. He knew 'nice' and 'good' were two very different things, and if that meant betraying friendship for the sake of moulding that friend into a super-weapon for the greater good, so be it.

I'd argue it's both

_He is._

Yeah he pulls the exact same trick in The God Complex that Seven does in The Curse of Fenric

@@professionalmemeenthusiast2117 And the way he manipulates the human population to shoot the Silence is dark as hell.

Don't throw out your opinion as a fact. No one wants to hear that.

@@Lanesra62905 I...never did?

crouch jr being a slytherin is not confirmed so he might not be

If his father kept him a secret then he might of learned all his magic at home.

Barty Crouch Jr. was a Ravenclaw

@@runawayy99 I just assumed everyone working for Voldemort was Slytherin. I wasn't into Potter that much to care about details

@@edwardtimelord3614 nah Barty was a Ravenclaw and Wormtail was a Gryffindor, not all Slytherins

David Tennant was in the fourth Harry Potter movie so it makes sense

Omg that's what I paused the video to say to my cats!

Same!

Welcome!

happy to be here! we hufflepuffs are a great breed. @@Dani_77709

Welcome my friend !

Books are the greatest weapons. He literally said to arm yourself with a Library. He's an inventory and curious to fault.

@@Stargazer_Ley I would actually argue his voice is the greatest weapon. He's always talking, always on his feet in the conversation. Turning it around, giving himself the high ground. Yet still cocky.

Well, Hermione is a Gryffindor, so those things aren't mutually exclusive.

I'm thinking he's a gryffindor and ravenclaw

Hes a hufflepuff that's been thru some shit, we're out there I promise 😂😂😭😭

@@alim.9801 That does make sense

Same. I see myself in both the 11th and 13th doctor a lot.

Awww that's so sweet 😄

VERY reluctantly.

@@Quirderph True but without the intervention of his older selves he would have done.

@@rayrix2016 That's also because they presented an alternative he never considered. To me, the War Doctor feels more like a hufflepuff forced into the role of a slytherin by outside circumstances.

I agree

Actions are the things that define us more though. If he acts like a Hufflepuff, he should be a hufflepuff

I'm inclined to agree. Smith admits his baseline for playing the Doctor was Troughton's performance, which was unquestionably Slytherin.

The War Doctor is a tough one. I get the feeling the nature of war made him snap, but what of that strange indecision? Doomsday Device Rose had to cajole him and press him, make him see, and then he remained pliable to the other Doctors arguments and particularly to Clara, who we have established as a manipulative (but in a good way) Slytherin. Clara performs to remind him of his Doctor obligations, just as Ten needed reminding by his companions, sometimes by actual Rose. Hmm I begin to think you are right, War is a Hufflepuff, responsive to his friends and loyal to his people, to the point where he must end their madness by unthinkable deed. A deplorable dilemma for a Hufflepuff, but good argument.

John Hurt's Doctor is definitely a Gryffindor. Remember, he wanted nothing to do with the Time War and knew the Time Lords were becoming as bad as the Daleks. There's a reason Paul McGann specifically referred to himself as "one of the nice ones". John Hurt was the rogue element that neither side could control, not an ordinary foot soldier. Even the way he carried himself conveyed a man who's fully aware that he's the most powerful man in the universe and because of this, he could afford to be affable when he wasn't on a battlefield. Hurt's Doctor was a perfect example of "Never underestimate an old man in a profession where men die young". There's a little moment where he's relaxing on the TARDIS' railing while Matt Smith makes a phone call, looking like he knows that dealing with a bunch of Zygons is going to be child's play compared to the Time War. Peter Capaldi had to rely on The Doctor of War's reputation in Hell Bent because he's only half the Doctor John Hurt was. Similar to Jodie Whittaker, Peter Capaldi had to stand on the shoulders of giants because he would have utterly ruined Doctor Who on his own. He's just lucky that, unlike Jodie Whittaker, everybody around him managed to prop him up. So Capaldi's absolutely a Slytherin. Even the way he treated people he supposedly cared about like Clara Oswald was manipulative and sociopathic until he FINALLY proved that he cared in Heaven Sent. I remember Peter Capaldi's face when he said "Stay with me" in Face the Raven. I didn't buy that he actually cared that Clara was about to die. His eyes were wet but I instantly assumed they were crocodile tears because the rest of his face looked like he was about to tell her that he INTENDED for this to happen. Why is Peter Capaldi considered one of Scotland's best actors? The man's expressions, body language and deliveries are far more suitable for villains than the Doctor. He's not even in the same ballpark as David Tennant and even Sylvester McCoy proved that he's better at delivering an explanation for why he treats his companions like crap. For all the problems in Power of the Doctor, McCoy excelled in his scene with Ace whereas Capaldi acted like a sociopath who knew he'd been caught and was desperately grasping for excuses when he pretended that he respected Clara in Kill The Moon. Honestly, I'm still pissed off that John Hurt and Peter Capaldi weren't swapped around. Clara's brief interactions with John Hurt in Day of the Doctor were glimpses of how damn good Seasons 8 and 9 would have been if she teamed up with him. Peter Capaldi single handedly ruined Season 8 and parts of Season 9 so if Clara, Missy and even Davros and Ashildr hadn't been carrying his dead weight, I wouldn't consider him a legitimate Doctor.

_Yes._ Speaking as someone who used to identify as Ravenclaw/Slytherin but is really more of a Ravenclaw-primary with tendencies from all houses, that is a good quote.

Stripey Arse rose: slytherin

That would be great! I reckon: Rose = Gryffindor, Martha = Ravenclaw, Donna = Hufflepuff, Amy, not sure, Rory, possibly Hufflepuff Clara = Slytherin, Bill = Gryffindor (although there's also an argument for Ravenclaw, she definitely had a lot of intellectual curiosity) Yaz = Ravenclaw Ryan = Hufflepuff Graham = Gryffindor

@@purplecelery7380 Amy is a Slytherin, good choices, and this is just modern era

Why Slytherin for 11?

@Rebecca Woolf Ah. Ravenclaw with Hufflepuff tendencies here (although not at hat-stall levels; my Ravenclaw is clearly dominant, while my Hufflepuff is decent and decidedly higher than the other two houses). I can buy it that she'd be Hufflepuff with Ravenclaw tendencies. As I said, my sorting hat had a hat-stall, so I'd find it believable if she had something around 40-40 Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw, and either could be more Hufflepuff like you or more Ravenclaw (but still more like you since I'm dominant Ravenclaw). But I do think she's got both at high and near-equal levels. Which is cool, 'cause both houses are awesome! :)

This is the problem with trying to sort _any_ Doctors into anything but Ravenclaw, though, isn't it? The Doctor in general almost always has strong Gryffindor and Ravenclaw leanings - and, depending on whether you favour the cosmic superhero angle to/interpretation of them or the mysterious traveller one, you could easily make the case that the Doctor in all is a Gryffindor or a Ravenclaw. So I think, to some degree, these tendencies have to be corrected for if we're to have an interesting discussion about sorting individual Doctors. And, as a Ravenclaw (with tendencies from all other houses) - I don't think Thirteen really has (pronouncedly) _more_ of a Ravenclaw streak than many/most of the other Doctors, so I think Hufflepuff is a better fit. I still think you can sort Doctors into Gryffindor and Ravenclaw with this system, mind you! I sort Ten into Gryffindor and Twelve into Ravenclaw (with tendencies from all other houses - one of the most likely Doctors to be a hatstall, IMO). That's because Ten has an even stronger Gryffindor streak than _most_ Doctors do - and it's evident that it informs, to a greater extent, his personal philosophy - while Twelve's personal philosophy has more Ravenclaw elements to counterbalance the Gryffindor ones than most Doctors ever seem to do... and he was mostly a Slytherin-type character in his earlier days, something he retained a few edgy qualities from - but later on, he developed a lot more into holding tight to Gryffindor-esque and Hufflepuff-ish morals and sensibilities and never letting them go.

That is more of a Hufflepuff trait. Yes, Gryffindors are very heroic and that fits with the doctors, but the Hufflepuffs do the heroic and dangerous thing because it is the right thing to do. They aren't being brave, but doing whatever is needed of them. I think that is much more in line with the Doctor's core philosophy.