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

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No: HPFGUIDX 99819

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, K G <moonmyyst13 at y...> wrote:
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> 
> Lady Macbeth <LadyMacbeth at u...> wrote:
> People LIKED the Nazis when they first started out
(SNIP)
 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.  
>
> > Moonmyyst (who grew up picking up mini-balls off of a civil war 
battlefield)


> 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.
>
imamommy:

Carried away my eye!  Salazar Slytherin himself left a basilisk in a 
chamber to kill off muggle-borns, and you're going to say it was all 
very well before it got out of hand?  Slytherins are sorted based on 
their personality traits, not their political aims or their need for 
defense.  I am not saying those traits can not be used for good, if 
tempered with some other qualities, but I think Slytherin House has 
it's reputation for a reason.  

imamommy