p.s. Also, maybe this was just by accident, but by OotP I'd say Ravenclaw has become a very negatively portrayed house. Not only does it house Marietta, a student villain, but the entire house seems to pick on Luna. It's rather funny because many people stereotype Ravenclaw as the nerd house because it's supposed to be based on intelligence, but instead it seems to also hold negative adolescent stereotypes (Cho not being ultimately heroic, Marietta, picking on Luna), some of which are connected to more popular kids. Hufflepuff sometimes acts like an angry mob when they're suspicious of something, but they also seem loyal to the DA and they produced Cedric.
We can't read too much into Ravenclaw as a "bad house" of course, but it just seems like we've gotten some hints it's dark in some of the ways Slytherin seems dark and in ways Hufflepuff doesn't. The Gryffindors have never picked on Neville the way Luna is picked on. It's never even been considered.
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Date: 2004-11-02 10:11 am (UTC)We can't read too much into Ravenclaw as a "bad house" of course, but it just seems like we've gotten some hints it's dark in some of the ways Slytherin seems dark and in ways Hufflepuff doesn't. The Gryffindors have never picked on Neville the way Luna is picked on. It's never even been considered.