[HPforGrownups] Re: Pureblood attitudes and the word "racism" (Was: James...

[Batchevra at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 106806

In a message dated 7/18/04 1:11:11 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
delwynmarch at yahoo.com writes:

>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.

Del<

I don't think that people find ambition as bad or evil, it is how you use it. 
Percy uses it against his family, Draco uses it to please his father, who is 
a DE. Harry has ambition, to prove himself. It would be like someone who is 
going to the Olympics as an athlete, they have an ambition to be the best, win 
gold medals, but some will step on people and pull them down while lifting 
themselves up, while others will be curteous and cheer for others as they would 
themselves. Slytherin uses ambition in a cunning way, which can be for bad or 
even good, while Gryffindor does have ambition, but will help as well as go for 
the target.

Batchevra


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