Of Sorting and Snape

[montavilla47]

No: HPFGUIDX 175768

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "sistermagpie" <sistermagpie at ...> wrote:
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> 
> > 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

Montavilla47:
Or perhaps how much easier it is to deal with property than with
people.  Which if you want to extend to real life conflict is down-
right creepy, because it makes me think about people driving out
other types of people and moving into their houses--in an ethnic 
cleansing sort of way.