Slytherin's evil

[Amanda Lewanski]

No: HPFGUIDX 1834

Kelley wrote:

> This made me think of something else--
> was Salazar Slytherin not always evil?  I say this because apparently
> Gryff, Huffle, and Raven, are 'good' and 'noble', and if this is so,
> why would these three found a school with an evil guy?

I don't think he started evil--nobody does. But the characteristics that he
valued--ambition, etc.--are those which can most easily lead to
conscienceless actions and evil. I don't think that House attracts evil
people, so much as it contains people whose personalities and values
predispose them to fall to the lure of evil means to an end.

Did that make sense?

--Amanda