Neville and Snape (was What standards are we using)/Stigmatizing Slytherin

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> -m:
> Which is interesting, because it seems like this sort of thing 
> goes on on both sides.  Slytherins are seen as being snobby and 
> thinking they're better than everyone, yet Harry on sight thinks 
> they even look like an unsavoury lot.  Even Hermione speaks of 
> them as a group not to be trusted. Seems like everybody pretty 
> much thinks they're better people than they are.  Harry and 
> Blaise "hate each other on principle."   I mean, isn't it natural 
> for any group that's hated by another to decide they are, in 
> fact, superior? Nobody wants to be stigmatized.


I am unsure that the other houses see themselves as "better".  I 
went to a boarding school that had something like that (different 
"houses") and we all thought ours was THE one to be in but from 
what I see only the house of Slytherin seem to actually think 
they are better- perhaps it is from the Pure blood thinking they 
think they are better? 

-Pookie