Back to Slytherin House (Was: Ending WAS : Compassionate hero)

[sistermagpie]

No: HPFGUIDX 177325

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "jeanine5715" 
<jeanine.banthorpe at ...> wrote:
>
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67"
> <justcarol67@> wrote:
> >
> > Carol wrote:
> >
> > Or is there a "water" trait that would work better and create a
> > more equal balance with courage, intelligence, and loyalty? What
> > would a Slytherin modeled on Snape at one end of the spectrum and
> > Slughorn on the other hand value? What would define the new, non-
DE,
> > no bigoted ideal Slytherin?

> Jeanine:
> Yes there is indeed a "water" trait that would create a more equal
> balance with courage, intelligence and loyalty and it is LOVE. Love
> encompasses compassion and sacrifice. These are qualities that
> Professor Snape displayed to a high degree. A motto often associated
> with "water" traits is "I feel". Those individuals who can truly
> feel, who can empathise, sympathise, and understand, are so often
> those who are the greatest amongst us. The outstanding example of
> undemanding love set by Profesor Snape forms an appropriate
> justification for the adoption of Love as the defining quality /
> trait of future Slytherins.

Magpie:
Snape displayed a high degree of love and compassion? He's not a 
character I would see as demonstrating much of either. Sacrifice he 
does, but no, I don't see Snape showing much empathy or sympathizing 
or understanding except sometimes in a negative way where his 
understanding gives him the right way to wound people. Snape was 
cruel and mean throughout canon. He loved Lily and sacrificed for 
her. That seemed to be the way love was usually demonstrated by 
Slytherins--they have personal loves for specific people without 
reaching the level of someone anyone would describe as loving. I 
mean, if anybody was using Snape as their model of love, they'd be in 
trouble. He starts off challenged in that area and while his love for 
Lily leads him to heroism and bravery, it doesn't seem to open his 
heart and make him loving when he has the chance. 

-m