[HPforGrownups] Slytherin's Role

[Brian Yoon]

No: HPFGUIDX 31970


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From: Liquidfire <liquidfire at mindgate.net>
To: <HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 19, 2001 6:33 AM
Subject: [HPforGrownups] re: Draco's Talents, Tom Riddle the Head Boy,
Slytherin and the bigger picture


> Looking at the bigger picture, have we been giving Slytherin a bad rap?
> Just because Slytherin generally plays the 'bad group' role in the HP
> series (yeah, with Gryffindor playing the 'hero' role, Hufflepuff as the
> 'bumbling sidekick', and Ravenclaw as 'that group you just can't
understand
> or reach') doesn't mean that all of the Slytherins will turn out bad.

Which reminds me of a question I had- isn't it because of Riddle (oh damn
it, so many different ways to name him!) and his following that Slytherin
received a bad rep?  It seems the biggest (in fact, the only) complaint most
people had against the Slytherin.  Hagrid grumbles that Slytherin had the
wizards that turned to Voldemort's side (who was a fellow Slytherin, and
thus easier to understand?), but that's really all.  Sure, they're "tricky",
but that doesn't constitute a bad person.

The reason I ask is because of a recent fanfic that was based in Riddle's
time, and had the Slytherin already ridiculed before he arrived.

Brian Yoon
aka Seiryuu