Every Harry Potter reader and movie goer knows Slytherin is the evil house of Hogwarts. Its not hard,considering we are hit over the head by the blunt statements of our protagonist's friends from the starting of his diagon alley journey about the evilness of Slytherin.
Here's what Hagrid says when Harry asks about Slytherin,
‘Better Hufflepuff than Slytherin,’ said Hagrid darkly. ‘There’s not a single witch or wizard who went bad who wasn’t in Slytherin. You-Know-Who was one.’
So Harry's first impression is he better be a Hufflepuff who are duffers(in Hagrid's opinion) than a Slytherin.The pale boy whom he has disliked in Madam Malkin(Draco Malfoy),who has reminded him of his cousin Dudley seems wanting to be a Slytherin..blimey the murderer of his parents Voldemort was a Slytherin!!!
His first friend Ron Weasley says this on the train,
I don’t suppose Ravenclaw would be too bad, but imagine if they put me in Slytherin.’
‘That’s the house Vol— I mean, You-Know-Who was in?’
‘Yeah,’
So no wonder Harry was prejudiced against the house from the beginning..no wonder he begged the sorting hat not to put him in Slytherin.
As its from Harry's POV,we too jump the bandwagon. It doesn't help that Draco Malfoy,Severus Snape and Voldemort are all from Slytherin.:-)
More than Voldemort,Snape and Malfoy fuels Harry's anger against the snake house.In Chamber of Secrets Harry worries for days about his may-be-blood relationship with Salazar Slytherin and his suitability in Gryffindor.If a Boggart lesson takes place in CoS before Harry meeting Demontors,his biggest fear might be Salazar Slytherin as boggart calling Harry ''My dear Grandson'':-) :-)
Harry's mentality is justified.After all he is a 11 year old boy.Who ever is nice to him means 'good'.Infact we are not introduced to one nice Slytherin(not good,nice) till HBP when Horace Slughorn comes along. Even then Harry is not that much fond of Slughorn.
House cup rivalry and Quidditch matches have added fuel to fire.Pure blood supremacy which degrades Muggle born students as 'Mud bloods' is perhaps the breaking point of the already waned relationship between both houses.
Despite all these things, I am sorted into Slytherin,the house we all hate along with our hero Harry Potter, in PotterMore -J.K.Rowling's official website.
That's right. I belong to the house of Snape and Malfoy who are pretty much my least favorite characters in the entire series.But I have to defend my house or perhaps my personality which qualifies me as a Slytherin. The question is not why,but How.
TBC
Here's what Hagrid says when Harry asks about Slytherin,
‘Better Hufflepuff than Slytherin,’ said Hagrid darkly. ‘There’s not a single witch or wizard who went bad who wasn’t in Slytherin. You-Know-Who was one.’
So Harry's first impression is he better be a Hufflepuff who are duffers(in Hagrid's opinion) than a Slytherin.The pale boy whom he has disliked in Madam Malkin(Draco Malfoy),who has reminded him of his cousin Dudley seems wanting to be a Slytherin..blimey the murderer of his parents Voldemort was a Slytherin!!!
His first friend Ron Weasley says this on the train,
I don’t suppose Ravenclaw would be too bad, but imagine if they put me in Slytherin.’
‘That’s the house Vol— I mean, You-Know-Who was in?’
‘Yeah,’
So no wonder Harry was prejudiced against the house from the beginning..no wonder he begged the sorting hat not to put him in Slytherin.
As its from Harry's POV,we too jump the bandwagon. It doesn't help that Draco Malfoy,Severus Snape and Voldemort are all from Slytherin.:-)
More than Voldemort,Snape and Malfoy fuels Harry's anger against the snake house.In Chamber of Secrets Harry worries for days about his may-be-blood relationship with Salazar Slytherin and his suitability in Gryffindor.If a Boggart lesson takes place in CoS before Harry meeting Demontors,his biggest fear might be Salazar Slytherin as boggart calling Harry ''My dear Grandson'':-) :-)
Harry's mentality is justified.After all he is a 11 year old boy.Who ever is nice to him means 'good'.Infact we are not introduced to one nice Slytherin(not good,nice) till HBP when Horace Slughorn comes along. Even then Harry is not that much fond of Slughorn.
House cup rivalry and Quidditch matches have added fuel to fire.Pure blood supremacy which degrades Muggle born students as 'Mud bloods' is perhaps the breaking point of the already waned relationship between both houses.
Despite all these things, I am sorted into Slytherin,the house we all hate along with our hero Harry Potter, in PotterMore -J.K.Rowling's official website.
That's right. I belong to the house of Snape and Malfoy who are pretty much my least favorite characters in the entire series.But I have to defend my house or perhaps my personality which qualifies me as a Slytherin. The question is not why,but How.
TBC
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