Slytherin House again. - A Quick General Note

[Steve]

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bboyminn:

Just a few general notes-

The first and most important is that there are a few hundred (or a
hundred of so, depending on what you believe) Slytherns we /haven't/
met, and half a dozen, or so, that we have met. I don't think we can
judge all Slytherins by the example of less than 1/16th of their
population.

Take Crabbe and Goyle, people rightly say that they are too stupid to
be cunning and ambitious, but they were cunning and ambitious enough
to attach themselves to the popular and ambitious son of a very
wealthy, influential, powerfull, well-connected, extremely cunning,
ruthless, and ambitions man; Lucius Malfoy. Their road to success is
to ride the coattails of Draco. It doesn't matter that they won't rise
to the top, they have sufficiently /sucked-up/ that they will be
standing at the side of the man who is likely to rise to the top, and
that's a lot closer to the top than most people get.

In addition, I don't think the Sorting Hat makes it's decision on
superficial or outward traits. Internally, in their inner mental
dialog, Crabbe and Goyle could be very ambitious and cunning, but too
extrenally stupid to pull off their desires on their own. So, as I
said, they wisely attach themselves to someone who is very likely to
insure their success. I don't think that was a clear conscious plan on
 their part, but a subconscious guide that lead them. 

Point, how people appear on the outside never clearly defines their
inner workings and subconscious desires, nor does it show their
untapped abilities. For example, we would wrongly judge Neville to be
a Gryffindor, if we only used outward signs. However, in small ways,
his actions have shown that under the surface, beneath the insecurity,
he really is a Gryffindor. In addition, few students are ever truly
tested at their house traits. We assume Dean and Seamus are true
Gryffindors, but what have they ever done to prove it; what outward
sign are there that the belong in Gryffindor?

I've said before that the hundred or so Slytherins that we don't see,
we don't see because the never get in Harry's face, they never make it
onto Harry's radar screen, as is clear by the fact the Harry didn't
know the name of one Slytherin (the Thestral boy) that he had been in
class with for years.

I think those hundred or so Slytherins are just normal kids like Dean
and Seamus, who want nothing more than to go to school and get on with
their live. Students in whom the Sorting Hat saw deep subconscious
characteristics and unrealized potential that defined their houses.

For the record, an am repeatedly of file has a supporter of the "Good
Slytherin" theory, and am very confident that we will see him/her/them
in the next book.

Just passing it along.

Steve/bboyminn (was bboy_mn)