Bad Slytherins/ Good Slytherins (was Does JKR want us to hate Draco? )

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imamommy:
I have never agreed with this view. The trait of ambition is not
evil by itself. If there is any flaw in the way this is written,
it's that very few of the Slytherin's *are* ambitious. Would you
describe Crabbe, Goyle, or Montague as ambitious? If anything, too
many Slytherin's just follow the crowd.

Snow:

So then it is just peer-pressure that causes a child to react to the 
house in which he resides? If you are in Hufflepuff, you 
automatically realize that you are NOT book-learned (Ravenclaw) or 
BRAVE (Gryffindor) or AMBITIOUS (Slytherin) and then, you adjust to 
the spirit of said house?

OR are the Slytherin ambitions justly amplified by the moronic 
viewpoints of their forefathers that they are so Ambitiously trying 
to represent?  Ambition can take on many forms. 

Ambition on the right side can be an overwhelming attribute but on 
the wrong side can be nothing less than fatal. 


Just my cents worth

Snow