[HPforGrownups] Sorting

[Penny & Bryce Linsenmayer]

No: HPFGUIDX 2034

Hi

Peg Kerr wrote:

> I think it would be interesting to meet a Slytherin that you could
> count on, utterly.  I just don't like the idea of all the Slytherins
> being nasty.  Seems too simplistic, and I don't think Rowling's a
> simplistic writer.  And really, if all the Slytherins HAVE to be nasty
> and evil, would Dumbledore let the Slytherin house continue?  Would
> parents be willing to keep sending their kids there? (Other than the
> Deatheaters, of course).

This belonged in my earlier post on Sorting I suppose -- sorry.  I agree
with this fully.  My husband (whose Myers/Briggs results put him
squarely in Slytherin under *any* definitition -- <g>) has always asked
this question.  Why would there *be* a Slytherin House if they were all
completely unredeemable & worthless human beings?  I still maintain that
ambition is probably their defining characteristic, and ambition can be
used to further both good & evil ends.  I think we just haven't met any
of the worthwhile Slytherins as yet.

Penny


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