sidewaystime:

captainqueer-oflesbos
replied to your post “Miranda for the character meme :)”

PLEASE WRITE AN ESSAY ON SLYTHERIN!MIRANDA

Hah. Okay. So, I basically view Miranda in a lot of the same ways I view Narcissa Malfoy (with less racism and a touch more idealism and philosophy) in that the most important thing to Miranda is her people. Not all people, not a larger community – her people. And she is breathtakingly, fiercely, destructively loyal to those people, she would burn down the whole world for those people, she’d face down the devil himself for those people, etc. But that circle of people is small and curated carefully and there is very little she’d put above them (apparently including herself? like, i don’t think she’s normally the self sacrificing sort, but if it comes down to protecting thomas or james, she will choose them over her own happiness/wellbeing every time though she will do her level best to convince them NOT to do the stupid thing). 

And like, we know she’s smart, we know she’s manipulative, we know that she is ruthless and that her fury when her people are harmed despite her best efforts is monumental. She’s ambitious (i mean, her ambition is to be happy, but goddamn she’s willing to go really far for it) and she doesn’t super care about societal rules. Her inner moral compass is less about right or wrong and more about safe/not safe or happy/not happy. And she absolutely falls apart when the people she sustains herself with are gone or taken or in whatever way absent. 

Now, I do think her secondary is Hufflepuff in that after her primary people are taken care of, she will happily turn her attention to a larger community of people and work from there – and I think that she values kindness and hard work and loyalty to a higher ideal/community/whatever – but I think she is first and foremost a people person and her concepts of what the right thing to do are driven primarily by that. Not what is the philosophical ideal or the pure idea (which is where I think she differs from Thomas) but what is actually, practically best for the people involved.