Slytherin's evil

[milz]

No: HPFGUIDX 1839

It makes sense Kelley. It all has to do with choices. The books state 
that Slytherin put out the most Dark wizards (that means to me the 
other houses put out a number of their own too!). That means there 
were some Slytherins who probably chose not to ally themselves with V.

As for Salazar Slytherin, he split from the group over disagreements 
with Muggle-borns being admitted to Hogwarts. I don't think you can 
call that "evil" per se, but definitely how his views were 
interpreted by V was evil.

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, Amanda Lewanski <editor at t...> wrote:
> 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