[HPforGrownups] Re: We live stereotypes - Snape - ultimate Slyth, Lily, pure bloods and more

[Kelly Grosskreutz]

No: HPFGUIDX 58029


> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Kelly Grosskreutz
>
> >>On the contrary, I see Snape as the ultimate Slytherin.  <<
>
> ***Koticzka's comment: I liked your explanation very much! Well, if not by
some
> characteristic features they would organize a lottery or divide students
by
> names. The point I do not agree with is that I do not see Snape as the
ultimate
> Slytherin. Accent on "ultimate". He is certainly Slyth and I do not
suppose
> that the Sorting hat had any trouble with him! Or rather: being the
ultimate
> Slytherin does not say whether one is good ar bad. His way of acting would
not
> indicate it for me.
> I still consider breaking rules as not noble and moral (ethical) -
regardless of who is doing it!

Kelly's follow-up:  I called him the ultimate Slytherin because I feel he
embodies all of the characteristics that Salazar Slytherin looked for in his
selected students, with the exception of Parseltongue.  If you throw in that
last ability, perhaps one could call Tom Riddle the ultimate Slytherin, but
to be quite honest, I don't have the time to think about this in connection
to Tom right now.  I never meant to indicate that calling Snape the
"ultimate" Slyth implied that he was either good or bad.  It doesn't, just
like saying a Gryffindor is courageous would imply that person is good or
bad.  I am just saying that, for better or for worse, he has all the traits
of a Slytherin, and that these traits are exactly what allowed him to
survive Voldemort.  I also did not bring up rule-breaking as an argument for
Snape being good or bad, simply that it was something that he did from time
to time, which fit in with one of the traits for that house.  In short, this
is not an argument for good or evil Snape or Slyths, just saying this is
what we are told makes up a Slyth, and Snape has all of these.  Hope this
clears up a few things.

Kelly Grosskreutz
http://www.idcnet.com/~ivanova