OoP: More on the Slytherin "cariacture"

[Joan P.]

No: HPFGUIDX 64372

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "darrin_burnett" 
<bard7696 at a...> wrote:
> Forgive me, but I find it a touch presumptious to say that JKR is 
> perpetuating a stereotype in a world she created, with rules she 
has 
> set forth and a plan she has had for years.
(SNIP)
> 
> Perhaps there isn't a good Slyth yet because there isn't a good 
Slyth 
> in this current crop. And maybe it's not entirely those kids' 
fault, 
> but that's just how it is. And maybe "uniting" the houses means 
> breaking the influences that have corrupted House Slytherin and 
> freeing the kids.
> 
> Darrin

We've only seen four Slytherins thus far: Draco Malfoy, Pansy 
Parkinson, Crabbe, and Goyle.  Would you get a proper sense of 
Gryffindor House if the only ones we'd met were Lavender Brown, 
Parvati Patil, Seamus Finnegan, and, say, Dean Thomas?  Considering 
the actions (and lack of) we've seen from those four, I highly 
doubt it.  Declaring Slyth house completely rife with evil on the 
basis of the four little evil brats we've been introduced to is 
jumping to an extreme conclusion.

Joan