[HPforGrownups] Slazar &Slytherin: Quatlity of Qualities

[Juli]

No: HPFGUIDX 121881



> Steve wrote:In a sense, the Hat tempted Harry with
> Slytherin, first 
> to see if he would be tempted, and second, to see if
> he had the 
> courage,scared as he was, to argue with a powerful
> magical object.
> 
> Miz Storge replied: I may have missed an earlier
> post, but I think 
> the Hat suggested Slytherin House simply because it
> saw Voldemort 
> lurking in Harry. Remember, Harry had used
> Parseltongue to speak to 
> the snake at the zoo, and I assume that's our
> earliest hint that LV 
> is in his head. 

Juli:
But I think Harry has much more qualities of a
Slytherin member than just the parseltongue.

"Professor," he started again after a moment. "The
Sorting Hat told me I'd -- Id have done well in
Slytherin. Everyone thought I was Slytherin's
heir for a while ... because I can speak Parseltongue
....
"You can speak Parseltongue, Harry," said Dumbledore
calmly, "because Lord Voldemort -- who is the last
remaining ancestor of Salazar Slytherin -- can speak
Parseltongue. Unless I'm much mistaken, he transferred
some of his own powers to you the night he
gave you that scar. Not something he intended to do,
I'm sure ....
"Voldemort put a bit of himself in me?" Harry said,
thunderstruck.
"It certainly seems so."
"So I should be in Slytherin," Harry said, looking
desperately into Dumbledore's face. "The Sorting Hat
could see Slytherin's power in me, and it --"
"Put you in Gryffindor," said Dumbledore calmly.
"Listen to me, Harry. You happen to have many
qualities Salazar Slytherin prized in his handpicked
students. His own very rare gift, Parseltongue -
resourcefulness - determination -- a certain disregard
for rules," he added, his mustache quivering again.
"Yet the Sorting Hat placed you in Gryffindor. You
know why that was. Think."
"It only put me in Gryffindor," said Harry in a
defeated voice, "because
I asked not to go in Slytherin . . . ."
(CoS)

I wanted to quote this just to state my point (just as
Steve said before), Harry has more qualities of
Slytherin than parseltongue. Slytherin is not an evil
house per se, it's just it's reputation, mostly
because of Voldemort and his followers, other houses
have also produced dark wizards: Peter Pettigrew was
Gryfindor, and in Pippin is right about the ESE!Lupin
theory, he's also Gryffindor.

By thw way, here's the deffinition on Quality from
Merriam-Webster:
Etymology: Middle English qualite, from Old French
qualit, from Latin qualitat-, qualitas, from qualis
of what kind; akin to Latin qui who -- more at WHO
1 a : peculiar and essential character : NATURE <her
ethereal quality -- Gay Talese> b : an inherent
feature : PROPERTY <had a quality of stridence,
dissonance -- Roald Dahl> c : CAPACITY, ROLE <in the
quality of reader and companion -- Joseph Conrad>
2 a : degree of excellence : GRADE <the quality of
competing air service -- Current Biography> b :
superiority in kind <merchandise of quality>

It clearly states that it is neither a good or a bad
thing, it's just a property, But the way DD says it,
it seems, at least to me, that he thinks those are
good qualities.

Juli


		
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