Social Correlates of Hogwarts Houses

[quick_silver71]

No: HPFGUIDX 174974

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "nitalynx" <nitalynx at ...> wrote:
>Nita wrote:
<snip>
> -Slytherins-
> 
> "Or perhaps in Slytherin
> You'll make your real friends,
> Those cunning folk use any means
> To achieve their ends."
> "And power-hungry Slytherin
> Loved those of great ambition."
> "Said Slytherin, "We'll teach just those
> Whose ancestry is purest.""
> "For instance, Slytherin
> Took only pure-blood wizards
> Of great cunning, just like him,"
> 
> Well. Cunning, using any means to achieve one's ends, ambition and
> blood purity (though, evidently, half-bloods are OK?).
> 
> Minus the ancestry bit, these are the right qualities for a leader:
> the military strategist type (see Sun Tzu's "Art of War"), the power
> behind the throne type, or the modern clever manager type. They are
> also the qualities that drive progress the most, IMO. Developing and
> implementing new ideas requires the efforts of very motivated
> individuals. I'm not one of them, but I do appreciate their 
contribution.

Quick_Silver:
But can we really dismiss the blood purity part of the Sorting Hat's 
song that easily? I mean none of the other houses seem to have a 
selection citeria like Slytherin's "purest ancestry". So right at 
it's very foundation Slytherin seems to set itself up as 
the "different" house...and it doesn't seem to have turned out to 
well for them. 

Quick_Silver