My Most Annoying Character

[sistermagpie]

No: HPFGUIDX 180089

Irene:
> Not to mention that if she'd played by her own rules, Percy should 
have 
> been in Slytherin with all that ambition.
> 
> But one of JKR's problems is she just could not bring herself to 
have a 
> bad Weasley. Same as Harry could never lose a quidditch game 
through his 
> own mistake.

Magpie:
To be honest, I think the whole "ambition" thing is sort of a red 
herring because Percy's not the only ambitious character not in 
Slytherin. The real thing seems to be that you're in Slytherin if you 
have things associated with ambition in a negative way--cheating, old 
boy networks, elitism, croneyism and keeping others down (ironically 
this often translates into lazy people who don't do much on their 
own).

Now, to me this, isn't realy ambition, but it's what we get in 
Slytherin. When I think of ambitious characters I tend to think of 
people who are talented and work hard with definite goals--like 
Hermione, the Twins and Percy, all of whom are in Gryffindor. The 
only Slytherins who seem sort of that way are Snape, who we know is 
creative but only really went for poewr by joining the DEs, and Tom 
Riddle who was, of course, a megolomaniac. Both of them seem to more 
be in Slytherin because they were dreadful, though, not because they 
were ambitious.

Even Harry's supposed Slytherin qualities I've heard rumors JKR 
corrected as being the hat "reading" Tom Riddle in him.

-m