Notification of prejudices

[kamion53]

No: HPFGUIDX 191564



 
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> Next, outside of school, how many Slytherins do we see. We see Slughorn, who seems to have a bit of an ego, but is otherwise benign. >

 Steve/bboyminn
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Good you mention Slughorn. I think he is the perfect exemple of what being Slytherin means:
Network, network, network and networking.
Knowing the right people in the right places at the right time.
just like Sir Humphrey Appleby ( played by Sir Nigel Hawthorne ) in Yes Minister, where the civil servants get appointed by whom-they-know and not by what-they-can. And as the Etonian Network hasn't changed much since Eton was founded by Henry VI in 1440, the PureBlood Network hasn't changed much since the days of Salazar Slytherin.
Although the Houses are hardly mentioned when servants of the Ministry for Magic are mentioned it's clear that the PureBlood Network still is very important.

But what does a Old-Boys-Network say to the average 11 year old student? Next to Nada. Only the rivalry and the bullying by a few Gold Spoons are registrated in those minds and that was the option JKR choose to emphasize. After 5 books of black and white picturing she however made an attemp to introduce a grey area by putting on stage Slughorn and Cormac McLaggen, the Gryffindor whose bravery showed as arrogance. But not enough worked out to seriously countering the already established setting.