[HPforGrownups] "Slytherin" Hermione? (was Re: The Beetle At Bay)

[Magda Grantwich]

No: HPFGUIDX 112382

> Potioncat:
> 
> It seems to me that in the post above, and in others, the 
> argument is that Hermione doesn't have Slytherin traits because 
> Hermione is a good person. And that where a Gryffindor has a trait 
> that belongs to Slytherin, the trait is re-named. I happen to think
> that Slytherins and Gryffindors are very similar!
> 
> Do you think it is bad to have Slytherin traits?  Or do you think
> it is only bad to have them in the degree Slytherins do?  


Excellent post, Potioncat!!!

Personally I think that there are no such things as Slytherin or
Gryffindor traits (or Hufflepuff or Ravenclaw or Durmstrang or
Beauxbatons either).  There are human traits - period.

I'm very uncomfortable with idea that certain houses possess certain
traits as if they get handed out with quidditch team scarves or
something.  Gryffindors are courageous!  How wonderful - for
Gryffindors.  And how convenient - if you're the Boy Who Lived and
you've had a good run of saving people in the nick of time and your
second best friend is trying to argue that your vision can't be real
and you're ignoring her logic.  

But Phineas Nigellus points out that Slytherins are brave too but
they save their own necks first.  A dead hero is no good to anyone,
least of all himself.  Would someone from another house say that the
flipside of Gryffindor bravery is Gryffindor bravado?  Or would a
Slytherin say that in his house you don't rush into a situation
without having a back-up plan for getting out again?  Or before you
examine all the possibilities in a given situation?  Like what if
Sirius isn't being tortured and it's a trap?

Magda

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