[ SECRET POST #2867 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2867 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

A Slytherfen conversation recently broke out on a discussion list I'm on, and the cries of "people don't like Malfoy et al because they're RACIST against SLYTHERINS" finally broke me. I found myself replying, "no, it's because the Slytherins we meet in the story are rotten little arseholes, and they were carefully raised that way by their parents, who are rotten big arseholes."

I mean, this is not hard stuff. I'm perfectly willing to agree that Slytherin qualities can be turned toward good, but at that point in history...they weren't. There are a few awful characters in the Harry Potter stories. Harry isn't one of them.

[(Anonymous)]

Seriously. Every Slytherin we meet, EVERY one, is a vicious, cruel bastard. The nicest Slytherin in canon is fucking Slughorn, who (and let's be fair to him) is a colossal douchebag.

People hate Slytherins because IN FUCKING CANON Slytherins are all assholes. There's not a lot of layers here.

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Yeah, I think Rowling really dropped the ball on the whole Slytherin thing. In the books it's pointed out that Slytherins aren't necessarily shitty people and, hey, even Harry almost became Slytherin which indicates that kind hearted people can belong there too....but the only Slytherins that ever appear are, like you said, giant assholes, so we don't really get to see evidence of nice (or at least non-dickish) Slytherins. Some of that can probably be chalked up to the POV but it still seems pretty clear that the Slytherin house at least has a much higher rate of douchebaggery (and outright villainy) than the other houses

[(Anonymous)]

Some of that was unavoidable from a narrative perspective, I think, given the culture war aspect of the books. Slytherin's the house of the old guard, so the loudest voices are going to be the Isolationists and the Pureblood Superiority crowd.

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(Anon from the top of the thread)

And the nature of the conflict, with its blood purity angle, means a certain kind of Slytherin is most apt to go along with it. Voldemort's ideas included an amplification of stuff that was already in Slytherin. Of course they were over-represented among his followers.