[HPforGrownups] Re: Villain!Dumbledore (was: re:HatingDH/Dementors/...Draco/.../KeepSlytherin Ho

[Random832]

No: HPFGUIDX 177763

prep0strus wrote:
> Slytherin actually IS worse than Griffindor.  It is not a view that
> some characters have.  In the world JKR has created, Slytherin
> represents what is wrong with humanity.  It represents intolerance and
> selfishness and a proclivity for evil.  You may not like Dumbledore,
> but JKR does, and most of the time she has him espouse HER views. 

Random832:
Yes, it IS a view that some characters (and some authors) have. The view 
that being Slytherin - that is, having ambition and/or cunning as a 
substantial personality trait, is going to automatically MEAN that you 
are intolerant and selfish and evil. The sorting hat doesn't choose 
where to put eleven-year-old children based on "intolerance, 
selfishness, and a proclivity for evil". That JKR has that view doesn't 
make it any more right.

prep0strus:
> When Dumbledore says we may have sorted too soon, he's not being
> condescending or arrogant.  He's saying, Severus, you are brave and
> good, and it was unfair that you were sorted into the house of evil
> and cruelty.

Random832:
And _calling slytherin the house of evil and cruelty_ is bigoted when 
it. It is inexcusable to claim that "ambition and cunning = evil and 
cruelty" -- that is, that simply having certain personality traits, ones 
that many people in the real world have, makes you irredeemably evil.

--Random83