Bad news ... for Slytherins- The Good Slytherin

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No: HPFGUIDX 98610

Potioncat:
> > What concerns me more on the issue of the Good Slytherin, is 
> JKR's statement that too many of the people on the chat she 
> attended  identified with Slytherin. It really sounds like she 
> considers  Slytherins the bad guys.  <


Pippin wrote:
> Erm, that's not exactly what she said.
> http://www.jkrowling.co.uk/textonly/news_view.cfm?id=63
> 
> "I was concerned to find that many of the moderators feel their 
> spiritual home is Slytherin"
> 
> 
>  I don't think there's any question but JKR believes that 
Gryffindor 
> values are spiritually superior to Slytherin ones and wants us to 
> think so too. That does not say that Slytherins themselves are 
> morally inferior to Gryffindors. Slytherins, though schooled to be 
> cunning, opportunistic and exclusionary, may just as freely 
> choose to serve a greater good, while Gryffindors are every bit as 
> capable of wrongdoing, despite that they ought to know better.
> 

Potioncat again:
Well, I think you and I may agree (?) that Slytherins can be as 
moral as Gryffindors or Gryffindors as amoral as Slytherins....my 
point is, quoted or paraphrased, it sounds to me that JKR sees the 
Slyterins as bad....Hatfields vrs McCoys,  Robin Hood vrs King John, 
Lancasters vrs Yorks. A "good" side and a "bad" side.

That's not how I want it turn out, you understand.  I'm hoping 
she'll pull the rug out by having good Slytherins. 

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