Of Sorting and Snape

[houyhnhnm102]

No: HPFGUIDX 175748

Pippin:

> Grimmauld Place cheerful and welcoming 
> once it has been restored

houyhnhnm:

That really works for me.  Thanks, Pippin.  I'm not 
bothered by the fact that we don't see many of the 
positive water qualities in most of the Slytherin 
characters (except I do think Snape shows quite a 
few of them), corrupted as they are by Voldemort's 
influence.  I'm not necessarily bothered by the fact 
that Slytherin students didn't join in the fight 
against Voldemort, when the man who was their natural 
leader was locked into his double agent role and couldn't 
lead them.  What I wanted was one clear, strong metaphor 
showing the potential of the Slytherin nature (not some 
trying-too-hard Lovegoodesque flight of fancy about the 
Delacours).  I think the transformation of 12 GP is 
that metaphor and I missed it.  That *was* my favorite 
part of the book, though.  I'm going to have to go back 
and read it again.