A small rant about stereotyping in the WW and Hogwarts Was: Evil Hufflepuffs

[slomudskipper <slomudskipper@hotmail.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 49941

Firekat482 wrote:

"...strange that Dumbledore seems to be content to allow these 
stereotypes to foster. Shouldn't he - as the school's headmaster - 
want to work at bringing the students together?...(snip)...1,000 
years is a long time for generations of students to hold the same 
grudges against one another that the four founders had against each 
other."

Dumbledore is a very wise and powerful wizard but one person can only 
do so much.  I think, if nothing else, he's setting a fine example 
for the students; it seems that (correct me if I'm wrong) he judges 
people on an individual basis, not by stereotype or popular opinion. 
And as for bringing the students together, when he was explaining the 
triwizard championship in GoF, didn't he encourage everyone to rally 
behind the school champion after they were chosen, regardless of 
house? 

As for 1,000 year old grudges, I don't think that's odd at all, 
especially when differences in beliefs are so fundamental to our 
outlook on the world.  I'm not even sure grudge is the right word; 
muggle vs pureblood aside, people with "gryffindor" personalities 
will probably almost all of the time get along better 
with "hufflepuff" type people than they do with "slytherin" 
mentalities, regardless of current political climate, or upbringing.

Mudskipper,
who's wishing her Wildlife Biology Methods class were taught by Hagrid