[HPforGrownups] (Another) Sorting Hat nitpick

[S. G.]

No: HPFGUIDX 22272


>A question about Slytherin House: it's the haunt of budding dark
>wizards, the Hat tells Harry that "Slytherin will help [him] on the
>way to greatness" and it's Tom Riddle's house.  But many of the
>people that we know are part of Slytherin are not exactly top rank
>wizard material: Crabbe, Goyle, Flint, Millicent Bustrode (the female
>wrestler), Pansy Parkinson of the pug nose.
>
>With the exception of Riddle himself and for the sake of argument
>Malfoy pere et fils, where are the impressive Slytherin alumni?

My thought in reading this section was not that Slytherin necessarily turned 
out alumni of greatness, but that the ambition/cunning/etc embodied in 
Slytherin would enhance Harry's other talents and help him to greatness.

Anyone else?
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