Slytherin House : evil ? (was : Cheering on Harry )

[delwynmarch]

No: HPFGUIDX 100813


Alla wrote : 
> Dell, I think Darrin got things right here. I think you know my 
> views on marking eleven years old as future DE, I think it is 
> stupid.
> 
> But, so far as portrayed by Rowling the Slyhterin values are all 
> that (all that bad, I mean)

Del replies :
Then Harry is bad, because he's got all the Slytherin traits :
ambition, cunning, a thirst to prove himself, etc... Oh, and a total
disregard for rules of course : any means to achieve his goals indeed.

Only 2 things truly set Harry apart from the Slytherins :

1. He doesn't believe in the Pureblood absurdity. But we don't know
that all the Slytherins believe in it. And Harry doesn't care much
about people's rights in general, he just cares about the people he
likes. He couldn't care less about SPEW, but he's mad at those who
make life difficult for werewolves because he happens to know and like
a werewolf. He's angry when people talk badly of Hagrid just because
he's a giant, but he doesn't mind categorizing his fellow schoolmates
according to their House (all Slytherins are evil). Seems to me like
he hasn't thought things over more than a certain Slytherin boy we know.

2. He has a personal history of hate with a famous Slytherin. But I'm
pretty sure Draco wouldn't be so happy to be in Slytherin if LV had
murdered *his* parents.

Moreover, I would think that if Slytherin House was really all that
bad, something would have been done about it during all those
centuries. I can't see DD allowing such evil to survive in his school. 

And finally, I'd like to know how anyone would turn if, wherever they
went in their school, whomever they met from another House, they
always got the same amswer : you're a Slytherin, I don't want to
associate with you. The Slytherin kids might have a natural
inclination towards crime and evil, but nobody is helping them get out
of that road either.

Del