Of Sorting and Snape

[colebiancardi]

No: HPFGUIDX 175761

 
> > 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).
 

colebiancardi:

I agree with Magpie on this one.  When the Trio *lived* in the house
before, it was when Sirius was the owner of said house.  And Sirius
*was* a Black, afterall.  Sirius didn't care about the house, nor
Kreacher, nor his family.   The Trio didn't live in number 12 during
HBP and was only in the house for a brief period before they *made*
the house *cheerful*, by Harry realizing his mistake about Kreacher
(finally understanding what Hermione had been stating about
House-Elves for YEARS).  Kreacher was the one that turned that house
into home.  As far as we know, that home was wonderful and cheerful to
the rest of the Blacks(with the exception of Sirius) and it fell into
disuse because there was no owner.  

The house didn't change - it was Harry who changed, which then had a
ripple effect onto Kreacher - he made the home.  As far as I know,
Kreacher isn't a Slytherin, he is just a house elf.

colebiancardi.