Ginny hexes / kinds of bigotry / Harry's Erised / what DD remembered

[pippin_999]

Rita:
> Young Harry's dearest dream was to be surrounded by people who accept,
> stand by, and love him. He thinks that means family, parents and
> grandparents (and aunts and cousin who aren't Petunia and Dudley) of
> his own, <sip>

Pippin:
Yes, yes, yes!  Harry didn't want to be surrounded by
his family because he wanted to build a powerblock. He wanted to
be surrounded Potters because he felt he could trust them, which 
is exactly what Slytherin felt about *his* family, the pureblood 
wizards, only Binns puts it in the negative. 

"Slytherin disliked taking children of Muggle parentage, believing
them to be untrustworthy. 

It isn't till later, when, according to the Hat, *all* the founders are
struggling for power, that Slytherin's paranoia  comes to the
fore and he wants to see Hogwarts as a whole restricted to purebloods
only. Actually, if he continued to believe that purebloods were the
most powerful wizards, then insisting that all the Houses admit
only purebloods would have made his own house and powerblock
relatively weaker.

Pippin
who agrees with Rita that there have been many non-racial
rallying cries in RL. Like  "Kill the witches!"