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

[marika_thestral]

No: HPFGUIDX 172587

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*

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Maeg <chaomath at ...> wrote:
 
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
> 

Marika: I had also expected the houses to be united at the end. I
always thought that Snape would be the one make this possible. His
friendship with Lily would have made a perfect parallell to the fact
that once Slytherin and Gryffidor had been the best of friends, but
when Slytherin no longer wanted to teach muggleborns it ended.(I can't
remember which book this is from, but the Sorting Hat sings a song
about it.) Now these parallell stories has the same ending. Too bad...