[HPforGrownups] OOP: In a view of a Slytherin

[phoenixtears288 at cs.com]

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Okay, there has been several post stating that they hope to see a decent Slytherin in the future. I'm going out on a limb and saying that I *do* think that there's a half-decent Slytherin out there. However, it's where peer pressure comes in. Let me explain with a bit of information beforehand.

The Slytherins have been called the "evil" ones. But I believe that it is just a stereotype. Also, the Slytherins are together almost all of the time. And the sorting hat describes the Slytherins as people with big ambitions, not people with evil in their hearts. 

So, let's imagine you being in Slytherin. All around you are people who are trying to live up with the stereotyping, hencing the bullying and evillness. Soon you start to act like all of the other and older Slytherins so you wouldn't look stupid and/or so the other Slytherin curse you in your sleep. So, the next year it's the same, same sterotypes... and the next year is the same, etc. But you still are good. 

Okay, is that picture in your head? Would you want to go out and say, "hey, I am good, I like Muggle-borns" in front of people who are with you everyday and can curse you in your sleep? 

So, with that in mind, there are probably good Slytherins but they are afriad to go out and be different. I mean, they aren't the ones with the so-called bravery... are they?

  ~Paige Woods, who is hoping she made sense~