Harry: 4
Ron: 7
Hermione: 1
Neville: 9
Luna: 9
Ginny: 7
Draco: 3
Fred and George : 7
Snape: 5
Dumbledore: 1
Voldemort: 8
Hagrid: 9
Lupin: 6
Tonks: 7
Bellatrix: 3
Lucius: 1
Narcissa: 6
Mrs. Weasley: 6
Percy: 5
Mr. Weasley: 5
Sirius: 7
Viktor: 9
Cho: 2
Grindelwald: 8
Pansy: 3
Rita: 3
Mcgonagall: 6
Lavender: 3
Cedric: 6
Fudge: 3
Lockhart: 3
Moody: 6
Pettigrew: 5
Lily: 4
James: 8
Slughorn: 3
Umbridge: 8
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ReplyDeleteHarry a 4 and Hermione a 1. I couldn’t agree more; so many websites get this confused.
ReplyDeleteConsider Harry, the Chosen One, living in a world dripping with royal purple and reminding him at every turn that he’s special. (How convenient, he gets to be special and not own it.) A melancholic boy who lost his parents and any protective love at the age of one. We see the stories through Harry’s eyes and surely this is a world coloured 4.
And what about Hermione? Isn’t she delightful in those early scenes of the first film: the clipped, clearly annunciated voice; the erect posture; her inability to avoid noticing and correcting Ron’s smudged nose, and that intense focus on academic perfection driven by an anxiety of error.
At this beginning point, Hermione wears her personality most heavily - she is the most entranced - but she is also the first to do something about it. If nothing else, these stories are about travelling the path to wisdom by struggling to make the world a better place and, through those struggles, improving yourself. In the first few days of school, Hermione quickly discovers that her priggish, perfectionist ways do not make friends. In Enneagram circles, this is called the non-adaptability of the 1. But in an act of wisdom more characteristic of someone much older (the troll incident), she relinquishes the pull of her personality: she relaxes her perfectionism in order to promote comradeship and achieve a higher good for the school that would otherwise be unattainable. Anyone who has done any work on their personality knows how hard this is. Very impressive.
JK Rowling has made it clear in a number of interviews that she personally identifies with Hermione, but when you listen to her life story what shines through is an Enneagram 4. This makes sense: she fills her hero with her own 4 experiences but is more comfortable owning her connection to 1.
Is Ron an Enneagram 7? No doubt about Fred and George with all their trickster antics, definitely 7s. I think Ron is a head type, but not sure about 7. Think about all that self-doubt he has about taking action (Quidditch for example, until he thinks he’s taken felix felicis), and fears (not least about spiders), both underscored in the film by his many fearful, doubtful faces. My guess is that he’s a 6. He has that cleaver, cutting - sometimes hurtful - humour of a 6. And how long does it take him to start a relationship with Hermione compared to the seductive ease with which Fred and George find dance partners? Yep, a 6.
Now isn’t that fascinating: our three heroes embody the three Enneagram centres: heart, head and gut. I wonder if having all centres represented contributed to such a broad audience.