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

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 183482

> Carol responds:
> 
> What "grinding sense of inferiority"? Little Severus firmly expects
to be Sorted into Slytherin, the House for "brains" (evidently his
mother has misled him somewhat), he already knows more "curses"
(presumably hexes and jinxes) than most kids six years older than he
is (unless Sirius Black is lying or mistaken, and I don't see why he
should be), and he seems confident that a Hogwarts education will
insure him success in the WW: "[E]ven with his poorly cut hair and his
odd clothes [little Severus] struck an oddly impressive figure
sprawled in front of [Lily], brimful of confidence in his destiny" (DH
Am. ed. 666).

Pippin:
That's just what I mean. Of course  Muggles think he's creepy, but Sev
doesn't care about them. Once he arrives in his proper place and his
proper house, he thinks he'll be accepted. His poor looks, his mixed
blood, his poverty and the effects of the neglect he's experienced all
his life, they won't be able to hold him back anymore. But they do.
Malfoy pats him on the back and James and Sirius shun him, but nobody
sees him as an equal except Lily. And that doesn't last. 

Sev is still treated like a creep, the only people who accept him are
creeps, and now he can't blame it on being a wizard.  He gets mascot
status from the older purebloods, but once his protectors are gone
things seem to be worse than ever. I mean, really, why shouldn't he
have become a DE, when everyone was determined to treat him like one
anyway?

Pippin