Their danger lies more in self-righteousness and having the Slytherins as rivals obviously don't help them there, because they represent things that modern thinking considers so obviously bad that they have little reason to question whether they're right compared to the other house.
Of course!
*smacks self on forehead*
This makes so much sense, but, as usual, I'm too tired to go fully into it now. But suddenly I understand that...it's the source of all these weird discrepancies and...ack, how to explain this.
And I keep thinking about how Harry could be going either way - how he spared Peter, but at the same time cast that Cruciatus....
I think I also get now why all these people(you too, if I'm not misinterpreting?) are so wary of JKR, because she never exactly makes clear whether she *realizes* that her Gryffindorish characters think this way, or whether she, too, thinks that Slytherins represent All What is Evil and should be accordingly punished. But she should be pushing towards that end of overall unity...that unused Sorting Hat song, Dumbledore's little rant about the treatment of creatures...
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Their danger lies more in self-righteousness and having the Slytherins as rivals obviously don't help them there, because they represent things that modern thinking considers so obviously bad that they have little reason to question whether they're right compared to the other house.
Of course!
*smacks self on forehead*
This makes so much sense, but, as usual, I'm too tired to go fully into it now. But suddenly I understand that...it's the source of all these weird discrepancies and...ack, how to explain this.
And I keep thinking about how Harry could be going either way - how he spared Peter, but at the same time cast that Cruciatus....
I think I also get now why all these people(you too, if I'm not misinterpreting?) are so wary of JKR, because she never exactly makes clear whether she *realizes* that her Gryffindorish characters think this way, or whether she, too, thinks that Slytherins represent All What is Evil and should be accordingly punished. But she should be pushing towards that end of overall unity...that unused Sorting Hat song, Dumbledore's little rant about the treatment of creatures...
Umbridge was totally a Gryffindor.