[HPforGrownups] Snape, mostly (was:Re: My Officially First Deathly Hallows Post!!)

[Maeg]

No: HPFGUIDX 172403


On Jul 24, 2007, at 4:53 PM, spaebrun wrote:
>
> Really the only 'good Slytherin' we learn about in this book was Snape
> and then this remark to him - it really implied that he should have
> been a Gryffindor. So we learn that all decent people are Gryffindors
> at heart, or what?
>
> I was really disappointed that the whole sorting thing was never
> really questioned. Book 5 talks so much about uniting the houses, and
> what do we get? 3 houses against Slytherin. Bad message. *sigh*

Not only a bad message, but inconsistent within the themes of the  
series. That really bugged me.

I had always expected some sort of final scene where we learn that  
Hogwarts is no longer divided, that it's gone back to how it was in  
the beginning, and Salazar Slytherin is redeemed. Perhaps with the  
Hogwarts banner -- four quadrants, each devoted to one house -- to  
symbolize a final unity?

Maeg

My mind isn't always in the gutter -- sometimes it comes out to feed.