Slytherin House - LONG.

[eggplant107]

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"lizzyben04" <lizzyben04 at ...> wrote:

> And it's not just that individual 
> people are evil, but entire families are evil 

And history has shown us that this is not limited to fiction,
sometimes in the real world entire families are evil, or at least
almost the entire family. To pretend that genetics has nothing to do
with ones personality is quite frankly ridiculous.
 
> Oh sure, occasionally a random genetic
> mutation produces a good person from a
> bad family (Sirius)  

And don't forget Regulus! Yes, mutations can be quite beneficial
sometimes. And sometimes the opposite can happen and an evil person
can come from a very good family. That's why I wish JKR had turned
Percy evil; it would have been much more interesting. This is not
unusual in literature; in Paradise Lost the Devil was more interesting
than God.
   
> Slytherins are bad blood, and no
> good can come of them. 

So this is the point you think JKR is trying to make in book 7, a
point she makes right after she tells us that Regulus, Snape, and
Slughorn are good Slytherins. Seems like a very odd way to make a point.

> blood is destiny, and Gryffindors &
> Slytherins are essentially sorted at birth. 

Except, JKR informs us, for those who are not.

> YAY! Ethnic cleansing!
 
It is a perfectly understandable human trait to want to be
provocative, but as I said before if one tries too hard at this one
enters silly town.

> It's downright evil.

If your post is not a caricature of a typical Rowling critic, if it is
to be taken at face value then we have indeed entered silly town, if
not the Twilight Zone. 
 
 Eggplant