Of Sorting and Snape

[sistermagpie]

No: HPFGUIDX 175756


> Magpie:
> 
> > That doesn't say anything positive about the Slytherin 
> > nature to me. It says how nice their houses can be when 
> > they've been taken over by better people.
> 
> houyhnhnm:
> 
> Those same people had previously lived in the house for 
> a year to no effect.  They waged war on the house and 
> the house won.  But when Harry spoke to it in a language 
> it could understand--he made a *gracious* gesture to 
> Kreacher (his motive doesn't matter)--the house changed.  
> I like it--as a metaphor.

Magpie:
It's still a house that was a Slytherin house and is now a Gryffindor 
house. Kreacher is now Harry's loyal slave. Personally I don't like it 
as a metaphor (for me the absence of the actual Slytherins speaks far 
more loudly than how nice their property is), but even if I did it 
would still mostly show how much easier it is to give some beads to a 
house elf and have him magically make a nice house than more difficult 
dealings with Harry's antagonists (the kind where Harry was actually 
wrong in some way).

-m