Slytherin House again. Was: Re: Problem with OotP? (was: Pampering)

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No: HPFGUIDX 119034


 
> Carol responds:
> Neither am I. and the Sorting Hat, which seems to have a 
conscience,
> probably wouldn't put children in Slytherin if it thought that
> placement would make them evil. The hat isn't looking for an 
interest
> in the Dark Arts as a criterion for placement, as far as we know. 
And
> there has to be a place for the cunning and ambitious types to 
feel at
> home, doesn't there? 

Potioncat:
We've only seen unpleasant Slytherins, and it may be JKR's point 
that ambition is a bad emotion.  And as this is fiction, she may not 
be thinking,"oh, a poor little child has been condemned here"...but 
rather "look at what this sort of person is like."

But, as I've said before, the traits themselves are not bad and we 
would be worse off without them, I think.  No, I don't mean a 
Pureblood mentality nor Dark Arts (whatever that is) but certainly 
ambition, cunning, a drive to succeed can be most valuable.

And by the way, I don't think Dark Arts defines Slytherin either. 
And I would think you could have Purebloods in any House who feel 
superior to the Muggleborn. 

Potioncat who would never make it in either Gryffindor or Slytherin 
and would like to be in Ravenclaw but would fit very well in 
Hufflepuff and BTW, what is a duffer?