After an incredibly long process, our DS has been fortunate enough to be awarded a music scholarship to Eton. He will be going this September, and can't wait (it has been his ambition for as long as he's known about Eton).
Although he was given a place some time ago, we were advised to wait before deciding on a house for him (not least as his current school and Eton's former admissions tutor thought that he would mature significantly during the 18-month gap between the Eton Test and the music audition). So we are now having to try to decide on a house (subject, of course, to the houses having space - which some will not).
I am confident that all the houses are excellent in their various different ways, and I'm sure that DS will be fine whatever happens - but I was hoping that someone might be able to let me know if there is a house which would seem to be a particularly good fit.
DS is (obviously) musical. He loves cricket (and is brilliant at it in his head, but significantly less brilliant at it in real life and is extremely bright academically (high-functioning Aspergers). He thrives on heirarchies, and likes to know where he is in the pecking order. He often has problems with his peers, though gets on better with older and younger boys. He has had a hard time at his current school as a result of being spectacular musically/academically and problematic socially. His current HM said he will benefit enormously from being one talented boy among many, so it may be a good idea for him to be in a house with other musicians.
He can be delightful, but is also prone to meltdowns if things go wrong. He is a terrible procrastinator (unless it's something he has is driven to do, in which case he can't be dragged away from it), and needs a lot of chivvying to do things like prep and getting dressed. I think my life expectancy might increase once I am not doing the chivvying. 
The Admissions Tutor has thus far mooted Hawtrey House and Waynflete as possibilities - partly because they apparently tend to attract musicians, and partly because he said the Dames are both outstandingly good (though qualified this by saying that all the Dames are pretty marvellous). We did have a marginal preference for a house where they can eat all their meals - but I have since read loads of MN posts about this, and am reassured that it isn't a must.
We met the Dame of Hawtrey, and she was indeed outstanding (though DS was dismayed when he heard that they weren't allowed to practise bowling in the corridors. He was evidently hoping to escape from the 'no bowling inside' rule...)
DS, having looked at the house list, wants to go to The Timbralls because the housemaster goes beagling 
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Any advice/insights would be extremely welcome!