[HPforGrownups] Slytherins (was Re: /Hurt/comfort/Elkins post about Draco AND Philosopher stone

[Jordan Abel]

No: HPFGUIDX 156226

Alla:
> If House Slytherin is the House,where each and every member supports
> the ideology of **purebloods is better than anybody else and
> muggleborns and half bloods must die**, then I think that dislike of
> House Slytherin is very fair thing to do and does not constitute bias.

That is a pretty big "if" to be throwing around with no textual
support, though. Certainly not _all_ slytherins support that.
Millicent Bulstrode is a halfblood, surely she doesn't think she
herself must die. We even have a textual counterexample, of sorts, in
Horace Slughorn.

Alla:
> No, the evil eleven years old is absurd, of course. But eleven years
> olds, which minds are already poisoned by such ideology - why not?

Having never met them, judging them as such based on nothing but
having been sorted into the house is the very _definition_ of
prejudice.

And why only the first years? We haven't so much as met, say, Daphne
Greengrass. On the train Blaise Zabini could have just been "talking
the talk", remember, Draco was his audience. IIRC pretty much all we
know about Pansy Parkinson is that she is after Draco, and has a "gang
of slytherin girls" (Harry's POV).

Have we really met anyone in slytherin NOT in harry's year, in either
direction? Really, pretty much the ONLY slytherin student we've seen
in any depth is Draco. Are we to assume that over one hundred other
students (based on even the most conservative population estimates,
all slytherin students for six years in either direction) share his
ideology and motivations?

Alla:
> Why does Sorcerer stone sets negative connotations? You mean occult
> as in witchcraft?

I think that this is the argument based on the theory (which I find
_highly_ unlikely) that none of the fundamentalist christians who have
been calling for the ban would have so much as opened any of them if
not for the word "sorcerer" in the title of one.

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Random832