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Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 8:29 pm
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Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 10:02 am
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Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 11:08 am
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Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2008 7:16 pm
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Sirius Black-Snuffles Captain
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Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 7:05 pm
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Posted: Mon May 02, 2011 8:16 pm
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Posted: Tue May 03, 2011 9:49 am
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Posted: Tue May 03, 2011 1:57 pm
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Posted: Tue May 03, 2011 3:39 pm
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Kiera Greyback [Ren The Ryoko] In the Goblet of Fire film, when Dumbledore is in Harry's dormitory he says: "I never liked these curtains. Set them on fire in my fourth year" I think it's incredibly hard to actually sort people, and it doesn't help that the qualities of each house seem to CHANGE from book to book. Slytherin house seems to wobble from "Oh, those rich a*****e kids" or "ambitious and cunning" to "all the whinny cowards we hate", and it's really frustrating. With Slytherin you've pretty much got a house full of this. In a word, schismatic. What you posted made me think immediately of Raskolnikov and Hamlet for some reason. Anyway, I'm a huge fan of that sort of archetype, so I don't have a problem with it, but yeah, I can see how Slytherin could get on readers' nerves.
I like Slytherins generally. I just really dislike the way JKR pigeon-holed them as bad guys inherently a lot of times.
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Posted: Sun Jul 31, 2011 9:14 am
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I like the fact that she has them as the bad-guys.
They are as a majority, powerful, cunning, and cutt-throat. Those qualities by default, are likely to put you at risk for doing wonderfully terrible things. After all, absolute power corrupts corrupts absolutely. This is why slytherins like spoiler? Snape are so amazing, or the Malfoy's so complex. They are raised and molded around a certain pure-blood ideology, that they are better and that they have to do anything to prove it. Every house follows an Archtype or even a stereo type.
The Gryfindors are also, very brash, very rude, and very rowdy and defiant by nature. Take into account the fact that they are sorted when they are about 11-12 and well.....At that the age, most children lack certain complexities because they have not yet been exposed to life.
However, Dumbledore did show a lot of brave qualities and there are many illusions, if not confirmations that he was in Gryfindor house. Particularly the line about him setting the drapes on fire.
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