Slytherins are bad (was:Re: Severus as friend)

[horridporrid03]

No: HPFGUIDX 183329

> >>Potioncat:
> <snip>
> I don't know about the rest of you, but I'd never be sorted into 
> Slytherin. I don't have the slightest bit of ambition, and I don't 
> think my blood is any better than anyone elses. (Although I am very 
> proud of my Scot-Irish blood!)

Betsy Hp:
And that's what makes me cringe.  In the end, Slytherin is 
the "racist house."  And I mean, it really truly is, I'm not trying 
to argue (anymore *g*) that JKR was cleverly pointing out the ease of 
falling into prejudice and stereotype by setting up an easy to fall 
into prejudice and stereotype that "all Slytherin's are bad -- born 
that way, don't you know."  Instead, yes, they *are* all that bad.

I still have *no idea* why Salazar was ever invited into the original 
fold, and I *certainly* don't understand why Slytherin House was 
allowed to remain after he rubbed his true colors (never a big secret 
to begin with, per the Sorting Hat) into everyone's face.

The only conclusion I can come to (distasteful as it is to me) is 
that within the WW some people are just bad and it's best to identify 
them early.  And ostracize them.

Betsy Hp