For decades the infamous yellow and blue hardback covers of Nancy Drew novels have lined bookshelves and the detective herself has become a cultural icon, her rebellious curiosity an ideal for many young readers to strive for. Nowadays, we can find Nancy on an entirely different platform: television.
After several failed attempts to bring Nancy Drew back to small screens, the CW was the one to succeed — well enough that the show was ordered a full season. Taking cues from Riverdale’satmospheric aesthetic, Nancy Drew takes the popular teen mystery soap genre and adds a sprinkle of the supernatural to give us an utterly gripping (and terrifying) story that unfolds a bit more with each Wednesday.
The series follows Nancy and her friends as they try to uncover the truth of a socialite’s murder while being haunted by the spirit of a local urban legend known as Dead Lucy. Though we’ll leave the real mystery-solving to the professionals, we wanted to shine some light on a question that probably had passed through fans’ heads at some point: which Hogwarts Houses would the Drew Crew be sorted into?
Nancy Drew: Ravenclaw
Nancy is constantly seeking new information and is able to easily pull together patterns no one else is able to. She’s fully aware of how different she is from everyone else and owns her individuality as the town snoop, and Nancy always has a creative solution to any problem she faces.
Like her father, Nancy has a habit of doing the wrong things for the right reasons. She inherited her parents’ sense of justice and nobility, and it would be easy to sort her into Gryffindor for these traits, but ultimately her weapons of choice are knowledge and wit. She’s constantly shown researching and analyzing, and retains a lot of random facts about her hometown and it’s population through narration throughout the series.
Bess Marvin: Hufflepuff
Bess is an extremely gentle and spiritual character who tends to believe in the most supernatural explanations for things, and while most shows would represent her as gullible, Bess is more often than not right in her assessment of things.
We place Bess into Hufflepuff because ultimately what Bess craves is a community. While she admits to Ace that she’s never let down her walls to anyone before romantically, Bess’ journey so far has been to find out if she’s truly part of the Marvin family as her mother told her as a child. It would be easy to place Bess into Slytherin due to her attraction to the life of a socialite, but that would ignore her tolerant and fair nature towards others.
Ned Nickerson: Gryffindor
While Ned is initially presented as the likeliest suspect (due to Tiffany Hudson being the reason Ned was put in jail for manslaughter) for the murder, we soon learn that Ned is, in fact, the most likely of all the Drew Crew to want answers: he was close with Tiffany before she died.
Ned is consistently shown to want to do the right thing, constantly seeking atonement for the life he accidentally took (while protecting a friend). Ned constantly wants to bring wrong-doers to justice and protect the people around him. His noble and chivalrous nature firmly makes him a Gryffindor.
Ace: Hufflepuff
It can be easy to overlook Ace at first glance due to his blasé personality, but as we get to know him more it becomes increasingly apparent that in a lot of ways, he is the heart of the Drew Crew and helps ground everyone even in a town full of supernatural mysteries with his laid back nature.
Ace is always there to be a source of endless support and help for his friends — from covering for Ned and Nancy while they were being followed by the police and giving Laura the 911 recording Tiffany made shortly before dying, to offering to become Bess’ platonic anchor and helping her prepare for her first date with Lisbeth, Ace is shown to be an amazing and loyal friend who cares deeply for the people in his life. For us, there is only one house for Ace: Hufflepuff.
George Fan: Gryffindor
Where Ned tends to be the quieter side of Gryffindor, George is all force and action. George is constantly shown as the “tough” one in the group, and most often is the one in charge of things when Nancy is away looking for more clues, and definitely the most skeptical.
George’s caustic nature and willingness to take risks is almost as much a regular occurrence as Nancy breaking the rules to find more clues. Several times in the show George is shown is the one most willing to do something potentially dangerous, including returning Tiffany’s ring to her. Combining that with her protectiveness of her siblings, George is simultaneously a force of nature and a great example of a Gryffindor.
Owen Marvin: Slytherin
Though Owen isn’t technically a member of the Drew Crew, he’s aided the team enough times that we’re considering him an honorary member. We first meet Owen in the fifth episode at a function in Tiffany’s honor. He’s enchanted and intrigued by Nancy, which draws the ire from Ned. Since then, he’s gone above and beyond by helping Nancy whenever he can — and trying in vain to keep her safe from the dangerous socialite world.
We’re placing Owen into Slytherin due to his resourcefulness (he always has a solution or connection that comes in handy when the crew most need it), his self-preservation (he knows better than to do business with Ryan Hudson, and is explained to be a cautious businessman), and his loyalty to his family — such as trying to retrieve roman burial coins the Hudsons have that could prove their involvement in his uncle’s death. We also always get the impression that Owen is a step ahead of everyone else, but for his sake (and the sake of his and Nancy’s blossoming relationship) we hope that Owen doesn’t turn out to be a bad guy.
