Once Harry actually HAS friends, loyalty to them is basically his defining characteristic - he puts up with Ron's repeatedly going into snits and immediately accepts the most half-assed apologies, likewise for Hermione's constant nagging and pushing. Clearly 'puff material, and it's not as if he's likely to cleave any less firmly to the Tenchi cast. At the same time, being Washuu's lab assistant (someone who's not just willing but eager to answer questions about what she's doing and how it works!) is likely to have developed his intellectual curiosity at least a bit as well, and the Hat did say that he could go in any House.
To try to rule something out... well, I suppose keeping the fact that he rather likes being put in his closet a secret so the Dursleys wouldn't stop and stick him somewhere else out of spite (the attic maybe? Tract houses like their suburb are more likely built on slabs than to have a basement, and giving him Dinky Duddums' toy room is a bit much even to stop him from visiting the closet-freaks) could have increased his cunning still (not to mention sneaking down to the closet after they move him out due to the letters) but there's as likely to have been situations were his courage was tested as much; in the Masaki household just staying at the table to finish dinner despite two or three of the others (coughayekaandryokocoughcough) getting in their usual argument could qualify for that. As so very many fanfic authors of all levels of ability have explored, it comes down to the situation at the moment still for which House he ends up in.
The anti-Rons have mostly convinced me that without him being basically the first person to exchange freindly words with him Harry would not put up with his continual cycle of jealousy and touchiness, but a wild-haired girl who's very bright and kinda pushy, well, Hermione should make him feel much more at home in the new environment, in an odd sort of way.
On the subject of Harry's gizmos, I'd expect that if his vision hadn't been previously corrected (and really even if it had, for the purposes of keeping it hidden) his glasses would be replaced with identical-appearing super-sensor indexed-database heads-up scan-o-matics, possibly with integrated face-protection & anti-fume force field for lab use, and that incorporating the material from his schoolbooks into the database would be a reflex action as soon as he got them even if it wasn't a matter of importing this material to give Washuu a baseline and background for studying the newly revealed magical society of Earth. Whether the scan-specs have a live connection to Washuu's own computers and the degree of access Harry has to them if so would be another question, but if he's been acting as her lab assistant then giving him the ability to look up the procedures and properties of what she's working on would be of obvious benefit, and even if it's "just the basics" that's still "the basics" according to Washuu.
- CD
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows
To try to rule something out... well, I suppose keeping the fact that he rather likes being put in his closet a secret so the Dursleys wouldn't stop and stick him somewhere else out of spite (the attic maybe? Tract houses like their suburb are more likely built on slabs than to have a basement, and giving him Dinky Duddums' toy room is a bit much even to stop him from visiting the closet-freaks) could have increased his cunning still (not to mention sneaking down to the closet after they move him out due to the letters) but there's as likely to have been situations were his courage was tested as much; in the Masaki household just staying at the table to finish dinner despite two or three of the others (coughayekaandryokocoughcough) getting in their usual argument could qualify for that. As so very many fanfic authors of all levels of ability have explored, it comes down to the situation at the moment still for which House he ends up in.
The anti-Rons have mostly convinced me that without him being basically the first person to exchange freindly words with him Harry would not put up with his continual cycle of jealousy and touchiness, but a wild-haired girl who's very bright and kinda pushy, well, Hermione should make him feel much more at home in the new environment, in an odd sort of way.
On the subject of Harry's gizmos, I'd expect that if his vision hadn't been previously corrected (and really even if it had, for the purposes of keeping it hidden) his glasses would be replaced with identical-appearing super-sensor indexed-database heads-up scan-o-matics, possibly with integrated face-protection & anti-fume force field for lab use, and that incorporating the material from his schoolbooks into the database would be a reflex action as soon as he got them even if it wasn't a matter of importing this material to give Washuu a baseline and background for studying the newly revealed magical society of Earth. Whether the scan-specs have a live connection to Washuu's own computers and the degree of access Harry has to them if so would be another question, but if he's been acting as her lab assistant then giving him the ability to look up the procedures and properties of what she's working on would be of obvious benefit, and even if it's "just the basics" that's still "the basics" according to Washuu.
- CD
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"Anko, what you do in your free time is your own choice. Use it wisely. And if you do not use it wisely, make sure you thoroughly enjoy whatever unwise thing you are doing." - HymnOfRagnorok as Orochimaru at SpaceBattles
woot Med. Eng., verb, 1st & 3rd pers. prsnt. sg. know, knows