The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly Slytherin

[potioncat]

No: HPFGUIDX 91474

>lot's of snipping<
Carol wrote about Tonks' house:
 The more I think about it, the more I'm certain that, like
> most of JKR's favorite characters (not necessarily my own 
favorites),
> she was a Gryffindor.


This brings up what is for me, the hardest part of this series.  That 
Gryffindor is the best house to be in, that Slytherins are the bad 
guys and that Hufflepuffs and Ravenclaws are just sort of filler. I'm 
hoping something will turn this upside down. It's a standard format 
and certainly is up to JKR.  But there are little clues that make it 
seem things aren't so cut and dried.

One of the things that crosses my mind is that Slytherin held the 
house cup for 6 or 7 years before the trio came to Hogwarts.  I can't 
believe it was done by cheating. (Well, not just cheating.)  So there 
must have must have been some mettle to that group of Slytherins.

Out of all the houses, it was Hufflepuff who provided the school 
champion for the Triwizard Tournament. 

I guess I'm really just saying what a lot of us have said already.  
So I'll add two more knuts and sign off.

1. Can't you imagine Snape dealing with someone like Tonks in 
Slytherin?
2. I can picture Snape sitting at the head table muttering to the 
sorting hat, "Crabbe, Goyle, Malfoy and Knott....You can't put all of 
them in my house!!!"

Potioncat, who hopes she hasn't made too many spelling errors and has 
to get children off  to school.