To kill or not to kill and resolutions of the storylineWAS :Re: Disarming spell

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 185584


> Magpie:
> I think it's clear that after a while Slytherin=bad even before you 
> know the person. Kids getting Sorted into Slytherin are boo'd by the 
> Twins (though one could suggest that was House Rivalry rather than 
> them saying the boy was evil--though I think it's clear with 
> Slytherin the two are bound up together). Slughorn also has to 
> say "don't hold that against me" when Harry seems ready to react 
> badly to him because he's in Slytherin.
> 
> I do think people are shown disliking Slytherins before they have a 
> reason to, however I also think the Slytherins are as a whole shown 
> to be nasty people. Is it a chicken/egg thing? I'm not so sure it is, 
> considering we're told Salazar was a Pureblood supremist who started 
> his house on those same ideals.

Pippin:
Harry decides to loathe Blaise Zabini  on principle, before Zabini has said anything.

  Salazar Slytherin  was a " twisted old loony" and anyone would have reservations about 
the judgement of  people who chose to associate with him. So what about his three best 
pals, alleged human supremacist Godric Gryffindor, Rowena Ravenclaw, who sent a stalker 
after her own daughter, and Helga Hufflepuff, who brought slavery to Hogwarts? 
What sort of people is the Hat picking for their Houses? 

And why assume that Gryffindors, Ravenclaws and Hufflepuffs reinforce each other's 
positive qualities but Slytherins  reinforce each other's negative ones? That doesn't seem 
to happen in canon. Surely Snape owed his increased anger and bitterness to his treatment 
by the Marauders and not to his Slytherin friends?

Pippin