[HPforGrownups] Re: Snape's "Outcast" Status

[weiss145 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 42163

Frank:
<Snip> 
> > > Darrin has said as much before, but the Slytherin house comes 
across to me as the place where the power-hungry are sorted. People who 
step on other people to get what they want. People who hold nothing and 
no one else sacred. People who cheat just because they can get away with
it. People who justify any means to the ends they desire. People
without ethics who gamble that no one will look through the accounting
ledger (or under the loose board in the drawing room). Back-stabbers,
social climbers, plotters, schemers... Think of Louis and
Marie-Antoinette's court shortly before the French revolution. Has
anyone else seen "Ridicule"? <Snip> <<<<<<<<<<<<<
 

I disagree and think that Slytherin was made for people with ambition which I 
feel is a good trait in people. A Slytherin was meant to be someone who 
achieved his goals. While this batch of Slytherin may be less then ideal, I 
still feel that they are more then what they seem. Look, Tom Riddle had 
nothing whatsoever. He was a poor orphan who was probably on the Wizard's 
equivalent of welfare. He became a Dark Lord, so feared by the world that his 
name makes people shiver. He went the wrong road but think of what a good 
Slytherin could accomplish. To quote J.L. Mathews, "There are few average 
Slytherins". They are the best and worst of what the wizarding world can 
create.  
  I really don't think all the bullies in the school are from Slytherin. I 
could see the Weasley twins being tremendously cruel to first year and who 
says MWPP were such great guys?  We just assume that which is wrong. I know 
that I would be in Slytherin if i was sorted and I consider myself quite a 
moral person. But I will do everything in my power to achieve my goals, no 
matter what. It sounds evil but it can be harnessed to good ends. A Good 
Slytherin will work hard to help achieve change  and can be a cruseder for 
the underdog. A good Slytherin is relentless when something needs to be done, 
but his work helps people.


Gwydion, the good Slyth.