Dangerous Rivalries WAS Re: The Train Stomp vs. Dissin' The Slyths

[SnapesSlytherin at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 51485

All of this talk about "evil Slytherins" and the "good Gryffindors" leaves me 
with a BIG question: Isn't that dangerous?  I'll explain.  As someone (I 
cannot remember who!  Sorry!) mentioned, some of the Slytherins stood for 
Harry during the Leaving Feast.  So, (Ah!  AB FONSY!) isn't it dangerous for 
anyone to pick on people just because they're Slytherin?  Statistically 
speaking, some of them *have* to be good - even if just a little bit.  It 
sort of rings of the world today.  People pick on people just because they're 
women/Arabic/black/Jewish/liberal/conservative/French/anything else and that 
turns people bitter.  It makes people want to fit to the stereotypes.  Now 
I'm not saying *all* or even most people will do this.  But some will.  If 
there *is* a good Slytherin, he'll hear all the bad things about how all bad 
witches and wizards came from Slytherin and he might think "Oh, well, if I'm 
going to be bad anyway, I might as well start now."  Real life example: My 
friend Laura (who might be evil now that I think of it *g*) has a Roe v. Wade 
shirt.  In homeroom, some kids say "You're going to hell for that shirt you 
baby killer!" So now, when we talk, she says "Well, I'm going to hell anyway, 
I might as well have fun on my way there!" END STORY.  So, just change a few 
circumstances, and you have the fall of a good Slytherin.  Am I just 
rambling, or does that make sense to anyone else?

~*~*~Oryomai~*~*~
(Who realizes, with the intense threads going on lately, that she didn't pick 
the best weekend to get sick!)


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