General Stereotypes (was: Fred and George and the battle of the sexes)

[jenny_ravenclaw]

No: HPFGUIDX 57518

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "darrin_burnett" <bard7696 at a...> 
wrote:
>
>Since I don't want to jump to a conclusion, I'm going to respond in 
the style of the old Choose Your Own Adventure Books.>

I love those books!  My sister and I still have a good ten of them in 
our mom's house.
 
> So, you ask for the Slyths to do something different because they 
are predictable, but then you say, I'm wrong, AND a bit childish 
besides, for holding onto the belief that the Slyths we've met  -- so 
far -- all seem to be without redeeming qualities?>

Who loves to argue?  Darrin!  Whoa - I was not in any calling you 
childish and I'm not even sure where you got that from.  I said that 
JKR's writing at times was more child-oriented, and that her creating 
characters like the Slytherins was an example of that.  I never said, 
btw, that *I* didn't also generally see them all as assholes, because 
I do.  They're even often described in negative terms physically:  
Crabbe, Goyle and Millicent seem to resemble monsters from _Where the 
Wild Things Are_.  To top it off, even if a Slytherin like Snape 
somehow turns away from the evil path they all seem to take, he still 
behaves reprehensibly fairly regularly.

If JKR is trying to communicate a message about good and bad and the 
choices we make, she's not doing the best job with the Slytherins.  
She makes it too easy there because she seems to want all of us to 
hate them, no questions asked, and I can't do that.

So there.  Nyah.

--jenny from ravenclaw *******************************