Notification of prejudices

[sigurd at eclipse.net]

No: HPFGUIDX 191473

Dear List

I must post this as required by my own discipline. I got a PhD., in History (for love not for money) and as a trained historian I have to obey the laws of my craft and state my own predispositons and assumptions so that the work that I do can be informed by that. That is, you can make allowance or make criticism those things which I print.

My own sympathy in the book is with the Hufflepuff's. Honest, hardworking, loyal, patient, devoted to duty, self disciplined, self sacraficing, law abiding, and responsible. These are the "military virtues" but they are also the virtues that make civilizaton work. I found the most admirable person in the book Cedric Diggory, and worth more than dozen Harry Potters. 

Yes, I've taken all those stupid tests on the net to find out what houe I would be sorted to and yes-- it was Hufflepuff, but I held my opinon on the necessary virtues above long before that. 

I also liked the clones in Star Wars. Good soldiers, honest, loyal, obey their orders, take their paychecks and dont screw around like the Jedi-- or the Gryffendors or Slitherin.

Otto