Dark Magic

[nboja]

No: HPFGUIDX 176630

Carol:
> Which "good, courageous, noble, tolerant, superior Gryffindors" are
> you referring to? The Gryffindors I know may be courageous, but
> they're rule breakers, often rude or tactless, sometimes arrogant,
> and intolerant of any House except their own most of the time.
> (Hermione has her causes, notably SPEW, but she's mistaken about
> their views, trying to impose her idea of what's right on them, and
> she doesn't mind engaging in occasional blackmail. Neither do the
> Twins.) So, except for Harry's sacrifice at the end of DH,
> his "saving people" thing, which is more likely to cause problems
> than to solve them, and the friendship of the Trio, which survives
> despite some rather severe testing, I'd be hard-pressed to call the
> Gryffindors noble. <snip> And what's interesting *to me* is that
> the Slytherins have their virtues, love and courage for Snape and
> Regulus, family solidarity for the Malfoys, loyalty for Phineas
> Nigellus, and a kind of genial coming through in a pinch for
> Slughorn.  Until HBP, we didn't really see the various Slytherins
> as people, but in the last two books we do. And so, I think, does
> Harry.

nboja:
Wow, this is exactly how I feel. I feel that there is no house worthy of beeing called "good" or "bad". It all depends on the person alone, and they also have the choice to be put in the house they want, just like Harry chose to be in Gryffindor, remember the hat said he would do well in Slythern and was about to put him there.

As for Snape being put in Slythern, I think that he asked to be there
to spite James from the ride on the train. And that's why he probably
wants to study the dark arts as well.  Or it can be that he foresaw
that in order to beat the dark arts you have to understand it; just
like a disease it's bad for people but in order to defeat it we must
understand how it works.