Two. Millicent. Of course! I have been playing her for over a year, and I have to say it wouldn't be that hard to shift her to a half-blood. Mine is currently going through occlumency training RPs so I've been immersing in her thoughts. What is so interesting in canon is that every single time she chooses Slytherin House. I love the previous comment about not showing weakness... oh yes. Definitely. My first thought with Millicent is "what would it be like to be the troll." I mean really, Ron couldn't care less about Slytherins, yet he knows Millicent is the troll-looking one! She doesn't have to say a word and her ugliness precedes her. With that a person would either have to bow down and stay quiet for the rest of their lives... or become a scrapper, a survivor. I can just see it: "So? I'm a Halfblood. *knuckle crack* What's it to you?" *snicker* That is a part of Slytherin House that doesn't get emphasized a lot -- they are survivors. They may be the cockroaches, but when the dinosaurs are all fossilized, they'll still be around. I hardly think they don't know about their own reputation... that targets them in a different way. It's that stubborn resilience that makes me enjoy playing Millicent and being in Slytherin House. In return there is *great* loyalty to Slytherin. You don't see them making fun of Snape. I suspect there are a great many social mechanisms within Slytherin to protect their own pack. It's not insignificant that they are in the dungeons with Hufflepuff. And if you read into GoF, Hufflepuffs aren't much better when they close ranks.
Slytherin is just the best place for Millicent. Can you imagine her previous schools? Suddenly she belongs. Her opening scene has her Head of House pairing her against the top of the class Gryffindor! It was like throwing meat to a crocodile XD Can you imagine a regular teacher deliberately doing such a thing? Kids with violent tendencies like Millicent -- in our current school system they are segregated and treated differently, not integrated into the pack. That universal attention and regard can only come from hierarchal Slytherin. Gryffindor, on the other hand, hasn't come up with its own leaders -- the Trio is an enclosed cell which happens to have a lot of power. DA, to me, was a demonstration of their influence, not their leadership; it was really there for the first time that Harry was a true leader at anything, and even then it was everyone's personal vendetta against Umbridge. In everyday activities, Gryffs don't have the cohesion and authority which seems to have been with Slytherin from day one.
And I hope that makes sense, 'cause I'm sure there are holes in that ^^;;;
on Millicent
Slytherin is just the best place for Millicent. Can you imagine her previous schools? Suddenly she belongs. Her opening scene has her Head of House pairing her against the top of the class Gryffindor! It was like throwing meat to a crocodile XD Can you imagine a regular teacher deliberately doing such a thing? Kids with violent tendencies like Millicent -- in our current school system they are segregated and treated differently, not integrated into the pack. That universal attention and regard can only come from hierarchal Slytherin. Gryffindor, on the other hand, hasn't come up with its own leaders -- the Trio is an enclosed cell which happens to have a lot of power. DA, to me, was a demonstration of their influence, not their leadership; it was really there for the first time that Harry was a true leader at anything, and even then it was everyone's personal vendetta against Umbridge. In everyday activities, Gryffs don't have the cohesion and authority which seems to have been with Slytherin from day one.
And I hope that makes sense, 'cause I'm sure there are holes in that ^^;;;