Slytherin ambition revisited.

[delwynmarch]

No: HPFGUIDX 106815

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

Del replies :
Not me, not when it's common knowledge that those kids can't master
their ambition ("use any means" is what the Sorting Hat says). They
need people *in their own House* to help them keep their ambition into
perspective, people like the Gryffindors.

Alla wrote : 
> 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.

Del replies :
He might betray someone who happens to belong to the Order, but he
couldn't betray them *because* they belong to the Order, since he
can't know about the Order : DD was barely starting to resurrect it
when Percy left his family.

And even if people *now* dislike him because of his estrangement from
his family, let's be honest : who liked him before anyway ? Pretty
mcuh nobody. And why ? Because he was so pompous and so darn, well,
ambitious. Even Ron criticised him, saying he could do a Crouch and
give someone of his own family over to the Dementors, only because of
his *ambition*. And pretty much everyone on this board agreed with him.

Alla wrote :
> 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.

Del replies :
Oh boy, I wish *I* knew :-) !!! I wouldn't have to work so hard to
defend him then.

Del