Good and bad expression of house traits (Was Nice vs. Good)

[Renee]

No: HPFGUIDX 153030

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "houyhnhnm102" <celizwh at ...> wrote:
>
> Renee:
> 
> > I really hope you're not putting mediocrity in the 
> > same compartment as nastiness and moral cowardice. 
> > The vast majority of people in this world is mediocre 
> > (or outstanding would cease to be outstanding).
> 
> houyhnhnm:
> 
> I am, when it is a choice.  No one is consigned to mediocrity. Just
> look at Neville.  But maybe I should have found another word.  It has
> a pejorative connotation in American usage (well, I guess it would
> wouldn't it, in a culture that places so much strss on
> individualism?), especially when applied to education. One which
> doesn't match the dictionary definition now that I've finally looked
> it up.
> 
Renee:

Ah. That's enough to reassure me :) - I did go by the dictionary
definition. And I agree with your analysis of the four Houses.