[HPforGrownups] re:HatingDH/Dementors/...Draco/.../KeepSlytherin House

[Irene Mikhlin]

No: HPFGUIDX 177604

bboyminn:


I think people are over reacting to Slytherin House.
Being sorted there does not guarantee that you will
go on to be a Dark Wizard and live a life of crime. 
That's ridiculous in my opinion.

Irene:

But that's what the books strongly suggest. For example, in book 2, when Harry is worried that he is too similar to Voldemort, and Dumbledore talks about the choices that show who you are, he does not say that Harry had chosen to be a good person (and would have stayed a good person even if sorted into Slytherin).
Dumbledore says that by the very action of actively choosing Gryffindor, Harry has demonstrated his superiority to Vodemort. It seems to suggest to me that going into Slytherin is by itself a demonstration of evil predisposition, even before the child had actually performed anything dark.

Irene