[HPforGrownups] The Sorting Hat (Was: The permanent problem with Slytherin House)

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No: HPFGUIDX 99800



Lady Macbeth <LadyMacbeth at unlimited-mail.com> wrote:
People LIKED the Nazis when they first started out, after all - the Nazi party was a NATIONAL, SOCIALIST party - they promoted better life for the average German person.  No they didn't want Jews in their country - Jews were (in their eyes) destroying their country and the morality of the German people.  The same was said for gypsies, homosexuals, and even people who had abortions.

But, like the Nazi party, Slytherin house has gotten carried away.  It's spawned leaders like Voldemort who push to the extremes and walk the fine line between genius and insanity.  It's taken a good but flawed goal and twisted it into a dangerous mechanism against other people.  People today can claim to be Nationalists, or Socialists, but they are hesitant at best to even admit that they see any good in the Nazi party.  


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You can see something very similar to this in the US South.  The KKK is a very hated term to use and implies prejudice to the extreme.  Look at all the evil things that are attributed to the KKK.  The beginnings of it are rarely remembered and when it is, most people deny it because of the evil that it has become.  The KKK began at the end of the Civil War (or as we put it, the war between the states).  Carpetbagger Yankies became in charge of the south and southerners were treated very badly.  Murder, rape, etc were not only not punished but were actually encouraged toward southerners.  The KKK began as a vigilanty group of southern men to "take justice into their own hands".  Since the carpetbaggers were paying the former slaves to do the dirty work, the blacks were the ones targeted most often.    The whole thing outlived it's usefullness and actually became warped and evil.  

I can draw the parallels with SS and the muggles and see the warping as we come to present day.  It makes complete sense to me.

Moonmyyst (who grew up picking up mini-balls off of a civil war battlefield)


		
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