Myers Briggs Personality Test

[PhuturePriest]

Remus Lupin. Is that good? I know nothing about HP...

 

Very good. Remus Lupin is one of my absolute favorite characters. If I could choose an introverted one to be, it would be Remus Lupin.

[CrossCuT]

Very good. Remus Lupin is one of my absolute favorite characters. If I could choose an introverted one to be, it would be Remus Lupin.

 

I like him too

[CatherineM]

I was E/I NFJ. Exactly half and half. ENFJ's are natural teachers and preachers. INFJ's are natural writers.

[Basilisa Marie]

Yeah, I questioned a few things about it. I also jump back and forth on whether or not Harry is in fact extroverted. He doesn't like being the center of attention, but that's just one aspect of being extroverted. He doesn't once display a feeling of wanting to be alone except when bad stuff happens and he feels ashamed of himself. That's not very introverted.

 

I think it got the Weasley twins pretty accurately, though it is kind of easy to figure out they're extroverted performers that like making people laugh. :P

 

See, I was also conflicted over whether or not he's extroverted, but the thing that nails introvert to me is that when he's physically or emotionally exhausted, he doesn't want to go to the big party in his Common Room, he wants to go be by himself or be with Ron and Hermione, his closest friends.  That's totally an introverted thing.  Being introverted or extroverted is about what gives you energy or drains it.  You can be the biggest social butterfly in your friend group, but if when you're feeling drained you go off by yourself or with a couple close friends, that means you're introverted. Same thing with extroversion, you might spend a lot of time doing solitary research for a job, but at the end of the day you need to go out on the town with friends to feel energized.  And Harry doesn't have a whole lot of good friends, just a couple of super close ones.  Classic introvert. Does he talk out his problems, or turn them over in his head a bunch before speaking to someone about them? He thinks about them first - especially in books 4 and 5. He gets so wrapped up in his own head during book 5 that he gets tricked by Voldemort and bad things happen. If he had just talked to someone, Sirius, Dumbledore, whomever, early on, it could have been avoided. But then I also believe Harry's got some PTSD going on in book 5, so that could be influencing things there too. 

 

At the same time, much of the characteristics for an ISTP fit Harry perfectly: adventuresome, no regard for the rules, very independent, and doesn't like attention. The only issue is that he's more emotional than an ISTP.

 

See, that's what I think they did - they just looked at the stereotype of what it means to be each type and shoehorned characters into it.  Which, actually, isn't that bad of an idea - after you take a quiz you're supposed to read the type and see if it actually does apply to you, because more often than not there will be answering biases in the test. But you won't always line up with the stereotype of your type.  Like, ISFPs are supposed to be crazy hippie artists, doing creative stuff and following their own path. I'm not a crazy hippie artist, but I do like to play music and do creative writing, and being Catholic is how I express my counter-cultural tendencies.  So that's why it's important to also look at the thing called Cognitive Functions, which is basically the way you deal with F, T, N, and S (each is introverted or extroverted, and ranked most naturally used to least naturally used).  And it's ALSO important to note that only you can determine what your type is, so any "analysis" of someone else or fictional character is up for discussion. Which is why I think arguing about which type a character is can be fun, because you look for clues in the text.  

[zabbazooey]

I'm an INFP. No bones about it!

[urbaneremite]

I am ISTJ and that is Snape.  I always did like Snape.  I guess now I know why.

[r2Dtoo]

I've never taken the Myers-Briggs, but just judging from those descriptions I'm guessing I would come up somewhere in between ISTP and ENFP.

[WillT]

I always get INTJ, whatever that means.

[PhuturePriest]

See, I was also conflicted over whether or not he's extroverted, but the thing that nails introvert to me is that when he's physically or emotionally exhausted, he doesn't want to go to the big party in his Common Room, he wants to go be by himself or be with Ron and Hermione, his closest friends.  That's totally an introverted thing.  Being introverted or extroverted is about what gives you energy or drains it.  You can be the biggest social butterfly in your friend group, but if when you're feeling drained you go off by yourself or with a couple close friends, that means you're introverted. Same thing with extroversion, you might spend a lot of time doing solitary research for a job, but at the end of the day you need to go out on the town with friends to feel energized.  And Harry doesn't have a whole lot of good friends, just a couple of super close ones.  Classic introvert. Does he talk out his problems, or turn them over in his head a bunch before speaking to someone about them? He thinks about them first - especially in books 4 and 5. He gets so wrapped up in his own head during book 5 that he gets tricked by Voldemort and bad things happen. If he had just talked to someone, Sirius, Dumbledore, whomever, early on, it could have been avoided. But then I also believe Harry's got some PTSD going on in book 5, so that could be influencing things there too. 

 

 

See, that's what I think they did - they just looked at the stereotype of what it means to be each type and shoehorned characters into it.  Which, actually, isn't that bad of an idea - after you take a quiz you're supposed to read the type and see if it actually does apply to you, because more often than not there will be answering biases in the test. But you won't always line up with the stereotype of your type.  Like, ISFPs are supposed to be crazy hippie artists, doing creative stuff and following their own path. I'm not a crazy hippie artist, but I do like to play music and do creative writing, and being Catholic is how I express my counter-cultural tendencies.  So that's why it's important to also look at the thing called Cognitive Functions, which is basically the way you deal with F, T, N, and S (each is introverted or extroverted, and ranked most naturally used to least naturally used).  And it's ALSO important to note that only you can determine what your type is, so any "analysis" of someone else or fictional character is up for discussion. Which is why I think arguing about which type a character is can be fun, because you look for clues in the text.  

 

Yeah, what you say makes complete sense. I'm pretty much the exact opposite. If I have a major problem, I need to talk it out in length with all of my friends. Keeping it to myself is simply not in my nature. :P

 

Yeah. I'm an ESFP, which are a super talkative group, but I'm only super talkative around my friends. At home I'm always really quiet. I think this is because I've always felt like I can't be myself when I'm with my family, so that may have something to do with it, but whenever I'm with my friends, my mouth opens and it never closes except for when I need to inhale some air. :P
 

[The Bus Station]

INFP FTW :|

[truthfinder]

Apparently, I'm Malfoy.  But I've taken this test online before, and then I'd be Lupin.

Edited November 1, 2013 by truthfinder

[CatherineM]

The Wesley twins are coming here for the opening of the Harry Potter thing at our science museum.

[thepiaheart]

INFJ every time I've ever taken it. Find it pretty hilarious, but all of the personality profile descriptions of INFJs out there fit me to a T, sometimes scarily so.

[PhuturePriest]

The Wesley twins are coming here for the opening of the Harry Potter thing at our science museum.

 

Oh my goodness!!!!!!

 

Could you get me an autograph?

[pen1]

INFP