Could Salazar Slytherin be nice?

[s_luhtanen at hotmail.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 26818

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., y_no_m at y... wrote:
> Has this topic been discussed before?
> 
> Professor McGonagall said in the first book that each House has a 
> long and honorable history including Slytherin.
> 
> I am writing a fanfic with this theory in mind, and readers are 
> either liking the idea of a nice Slytherin or saying Slytherin 
can't 
> have been nice.
> 
> yen

Right - I think Slytherin was indeed a good person. Just that each 
founder of the Hogwarts had different values and different code of 
ethics with "Ends justify the means" being whole-hartedly accepted by 
Slytherins...