Slytherin ambition revisited.

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 106794

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> Alla wrote previously: 
> > You could be right. I think it is very possible that Rowling will 
do 
> > away all the Houses at the end of the book, or Slytherins will be 
> > choosen based on their cunning and ambition, not on whether they 
> > are "pure-bloods"
> 
> Del replies :
> But even cunning and ambition seem to be regarded as negative 
traits.
> All the other Houses favour character traits that are positive 
without
> ambiguity (courage, intelligence, hard work and loyalty), but
> Slytherin favours a quality that is most of the time described as
> negative : ambition. Just look at how people dislike Percy because
> he's ambitious, how they often conclude that's he's going to end up
> evil just because of his ambition.
> 


Alla:

Well, certainly not me. I see nothing bad with the ambition per se. 
As long as person, who strives to achieve his/her goal, doing it 
without hurting people around, I will admire such person.
I am an ambitious person myself.

If Sorting Hat will choose new Slyhts based on only how cunning and 
ambitious they are, I would like  that very much.

And case of Percy is certainly on point - I don't dislike him because 
he is ambitious, I dislike him because he turned his back on his 
family and moreover, I am afraid that he will betray someone from the 
Order to Voldemort.
By the way, Percy is one of the characters, whose motivations I am 
most definitely curious to learn about. He is written as potentially 
complex character.