Actually, I always thought of Ravenclaws and Slytherins tolerating each other, while at the same time feeling some contempt for the other two Houses. Ravenclaws are just better at hiding it. Slytherins, for all their alledged 'cunning', are pretty bad at not telegraphing their intentions and loyalties in canon.
Heh--I sort of love the idea that the more interesting Ravenclaws are friends with Slytherins. It's fun to think of that house as being the one that mixes most with other houses, seeing no reason to be super loyal to only the people you sleep close to in school. So there'd be some who were friends with Gryffindors (and perhaps didn't have all the best things to say about that), some with Hufflepuffs, some with Slytherins.
Hence the need for a 'forbidden' section in the Library. And according to Sirius, wasn't the very fact that Snape knew dark curses and spells proof of his untrusworthiness.
Yup--and Hermione gets a pass to that forbidden section because she's "good," so couldn't possibly be using what she learns there to bad ends.
For some reason, that reminds me of that joke where the teacher asks the children to right an essay about a poor family, and Spoiled Little Rich Kid wrote 'There was once a Very Poor Family. The father was poor, the mother was poor, the kids were poor, the chauffeur was poor, the maid was poor, the nanny was poor, etc...'
LOL! It's like that line from "A Diamond as Big as the Ritz" where one character says something like, "Think of the millions and millions of people in the world, laborers and all, who get along with only two maids."
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Date: 2005-06-30 01:56 pm (UTC)Heh--I sort of love the idea that the more interesting Ravenclaws are friends with Slytherins. It's fun to think of that house as being the one that mixes most with other houses, seeing no reason to be super loyal to only the people you sleep close to in school. So there'd be some who were friends with Gryffindors (and perhaps didn't have all the best things to say about that), some with Hufflepuffs, some with Slytherins.
Hence the need for a 'forbidden' section in the Library. And according to Sirius, wasn't the very fact that Snape knew dark curses and spells proof of his untrusworthiness.
Yup--and Hermione gets a pass to that forbidden section because she's "good," so couldn't possibly be using what she learns there to bad ends.
For some reason, that reminds me of that joke where the teacher asks the children to right an essay about a poor family, and Spoiled Little Rich Kid wrote 'There was once a Very Poor Family. The father was poor, the mother was poor, the kids were poor, the chauffeur was poor, the maid was poor, the nanny was poor, etc...'
LOL! It's like that line from "A Diamond as Big as the Ritz" where one character says something like, "Think of the millions and millions of people in the world, laborers and all, who get along with only two maids."