Justin's Ravenclaw, because he believes - at least initially - that he can control and shape things by means of his intelligence and knowledge. If he's smart enough, he thinks at first, that means he can maintain some small degree of power. If he just understands, he can fix things. He seeks to influence the world around him by knowing it. So. Ravenclaw.
...Grant's a lot harder, because he's azi and very low key and rarely even. Lets himself think about a whole range of basic questions about who he is and what he believes. That firm rejection he comes to of hierarchies of functioning and ability and style of being - his We Don't Really Need Bornmen conviction - is something that he arrives at as an adult. It kind of resonates with Hufflepuff's Educate The Lot philosophy, but, like I said, it's something he comes to as a grown up and that's not how sorting works... hmmmmm. There's a lot of Grant that gets through everything terrible that happens to him by simply refusing to not. He's not sure he can be brave, but bravery is the only thing he has - hard work won't help him, intelligence only makes him more vulnerable, cunning will get him nowhere because he has absolutely no leverage or wriggle room - - - so he just. Holds on. And holds on. There's a bit of Gryffindor in that, that reckless determined survival. So either Hufflepuff or Gryffindor? (Despite the fact that he's certainly even more intelligent than Justin, and possibly smarter than anyone else at Reseune, it doesn't count the way it does for CITs, it isn't something he can use for himself, so...)
I really ought to add, since I somehow left it out, that Slytherin is kind of in Ravenclaw with Places Grant Cannot Go. He could easily be a Slytherin - he's got DREAMS and a gloriously ruthless creativity - but he can't allow himself to be ambitious, not really, because he has no solid foundation, and what little control he has could be yanked at any moment, and it would just. Hurt far too much. Better to not. No going there. Nope.
Miriam is kind of the - epitome of the Not So Nice side of Hufflepuff. If everyone just follows the rules and works together and does what they're SUPPOSED TO and maintains group cohesion, everything will be FINE and it will be SUNSHINE AND DAISIES. But when people do not follow the rules and do not work together and do not maintain the group identity SHUN with a mighty shunning. ...which in the context, means eviction.
Of course, she is also the fiercest defender possible of the people who she understands as within the group. You do not mess with people under Miriam Fry's protection, and if you do, you regret it.
So yeah. Hufflepuff. Often Hufflepuff at its most unfortunately socially conservative and jerkiest, but Hufflepuff.
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Or Grant.
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...Grant's a lot harder, because he's azi and very low key and rarely even. Lets himself think about a whole range of basic questions about who he is and what he believes. That firm rejection he comes to of hierarchies of functioning and ability and style of being - his We Don't Really Need Bornmen conviction - is something that he arrives at as an adult. It kind of resonates with Hufflepuff's Educate The Lot philosophy, but, like I said, it's something he comes to as a grown up and that's not how sorting works... hmmmmm. There's a lot of Grant that gets through everything terrible that happens to him by simply refusing to not. He's not sure he can be brave, but bravery is the only thing he has - hard work won't help him, intelligence only makes him more vulnerable, cunning will get him nowhere because he has absolutely no leverage or wriggle room - - - so he just. Holds on. And holds on. There's a bit of Gryffindor in that, that reckless determined survival. So either Hufflepuff or Gryffindor? (Despite the fact that he's certainly even more intelligent than Justin, and possibly smarter than anyone else at Reseune, it doesn't count the way it does for CITs, it isn't something he can use for himself, so...)
...Been a while since my last reread, but.
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Of course, she is also the fiercest defender possible of the people who she understands as within the group. You do not mess with people under Miriam Fry's protection, and if you do, you regret it.
So yeah. Hufflepuff. Often Hufflepuff at its most unfortunately socially conservative and jerkiest, but Hufflepuff.