Salazar & Slytherin - Quality of Qualities.

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No: HPFGUIDX 121966


Alla wrote previously:
"But there are NO other Slytherins to use so far, am I right? Are we
suppose to pick the character who is just a name for now?"
 
Del replies:
No. Personally I would consider the typical Slytherin *as the Sorting
Hat presents him*. I don't consider any of the Gryffindors to be the
typical Gryffindor, so when talking about the typical Gryffindor, I
wouldn't use any of them as the perfect example. Similarly, I don't
consider Draco to be the typical Slytherin : to me he's quite
obviously much nastier than an average Slytherin, or than the typical
Slytherin (the Sorting Hat does mention "use any means to achieve
their ends", but it doesn't expressly mention utter nastiness, which
is in fact counter-productive, as Lucius tried to teach his son in 
CoS).

Alla:

I am sorry, but I am starting to feel very, very confused. I think we 
are reaching the point of fundamental differences in readings.

How do you know that Draco is nastier than usual Slytherin, since he 
is the ONLY Slytherin we can can consider among the kids for now? 
What do you mean you would consider "typical Slytherin" as Sorting 
Hat presents him?

Sorting Hat does not give us any new characters, it only gives us 
traits or "qualities" by which it supposedly chooses Slytherins


Alla wrote previously:  
"Actually, I don't completely agree. I think that we may not know 
COMPLETE story about Slytherins and why they do things, but we were 
given some motifs for their action (pureblood ideology for example) 
and to me they are clear as night and day."
 
Del replies:
How many Slytherins do we know *for sure* believe in the pureblood
ideology? Draco is the only one, as far as I can remember. So I
wouldn't assume that all Slytherins strongly believe in this ideology,
especially not the older ones.

Alla:

Again, same question. Who else in the story among the Slytherin 
students can be called a real character, not a name?

And, I would say all Slytherins we KNOW so far, not just heard their 
names , believe in pureblood ideology or believed at one point of 
their lives. (I am talking about Snape and Regulus)

I believe and of course it is only my opinion that by making Draco so 
visible Rowling means for us to consider him as a typical Slytherin.


Now, it may very well be that it is a false assertion, I absolutely 
concede that, but I just don't understand how we can think that Draco 
is not typical Slytherin, if we don't really see anybody else in the 
younger generation and everybody else in the older generation seems 
as nasty as Draco (let's exclude Snape's attitude since we don't 
really know much about it).

I mean even Regulus happily (or unhappily, I don't know) joined the 
DE and only after that realised that he is not cut for that. So, so 
far Draco is behind him on the path to Darkness, not in front of him.


Remember that password to Slytherin dorms was "pure blood" in CoS? I 
think it hints at something.


Just my opinion,

Alla