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Your replies do show a large streak of Slytherinesque views. I think you were mishoused. The Shrike Send a noteboard - 26/06/2017 06:06:09 PM

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View original postPersonally I enjoyed Draco's redemption story throughout the entire series. And then there was Snape as well. Complicated people. Much more interesting than a lot of Gryffindors. I mean if you want terrible Gryffindors we have Percy Weasley. Turned his back on his family.

There are plenty of terrible people in every house. It's simply that Slytherin has a vastly disproportionate amount with practically no good people to balance it out. And sure, Snape was interesting (Malfoy didn't get enough attention to be), but that doesn't make him good. Pick up a good biography of your vicious dictator of choice and you'll see interesting in spades.
View original postThe problem with the test and the books with regards to houses is that even though I think I should have been Ravenclaw, Rowling never fleshed out Hufflepuff or Ravenclaw properly. So we don't have enough of them to see what they are truly like. I think I did the calculations once that there are roughly 40 people per class at Hogwarts - so about 280 people in the school - and Rowling just never felt the need to tell a story other than through the eyes of Gryffindor and their antagonists Slytherin. She would have done better to make a more nuanced story that showed evil/good people from all the houses rather than the clear only good/only evil duality she had going on. But this did begin as a story for children before progressing into what it became in later books.

Ravenclaw has Luna and is a bit fleshed out. Hufflepuff exists largely to be the butt of jokes. I agree that some more depth would have been preferable, but Rowling did a remarkable job of developing the books' maturity as the series progresses.
View original postDo I think any one of the houses is the best? Clearly not. And that kind of chauvinistic attitude is really so old school. Reactionary even. Looks like you should be happy you're in Gryffindor. But you sound like you could have placed in Slytherin too.

The text supports it. Slytherin is full of terrible people.
View original postBTW - you forgot Harry's son who placed into Slytherin - Albus Severus Potter.

I refuse to acknowledge the drivel that is the epilogue or the even worse drivel that is CURSED CHILD. Dreadful writing.
View original postP.S. What do you have against using the word 'Philosopher' with its medieval alchemist connotations? A sorcerer is not a person of intellect.

Nothing, but the title in the U.S. is not Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. You should ask Scholastic, not me.
View original postP. P. S. - you seem to have gone to a lot of trouble to try to justify your so-called Gryffindorness. You sure you didn't get placed into Hufflepuff? You can always do the test again if you need to feel better.

Moralizing, judgemental attitudes come naturally to me. I'm a Gryffindor through and through. But Hufflepuff is a lovely house and had the protagonist of the only good Harry Potter film, so I'm not insulted by the insinuation.

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What the hell is with people's fondness for Slytherin? Ghavrel - 26/06/2017 09:48:07 AM 1105 Views
Contrarian & deconstructionist fashions Cannoli - 26/06/2017 11:13:55 AM 753 Views
I think it's more because people are rejecting facile black-and-white depictions of the world. Tom - 26/06/2017 02:27:21 PM 717 Views
I can't help but think a children's series is the wrong venue for this sort of protest. Ghavrel - 26/06/2017 05:52:52 PM 703 Views
I can't help but think a children's series is the perfect venue for such a protest. Tom - 26/06/2017 07:45:47 PM 611 Views
Claps *NM* Roland00 - 27/06/2017 09:38:46 AM 417 Views
Maybe there's also room for different takes on morality in children's books? Legolas - 26/06/2017 07:58:21 PM 724 Views
I mean, I tend towards black and white morality as a general principle, so... Ghavrel - 27/06/2017 12:46:53 AM 607 Views
How is Gondor theocratic? I think I missed something *NM* Ghavrel - 26/06/2017 05:45:55 PM 422 Views
Appendix J to the Return of the King is essentially just religious laws of Gondor. Tom - 26/06/2017 07:49:08 PM 658 Views
I remember the first time reading those appendices at the end of The Return of the King The Shrike - 26/06/2017 08:09:18 PM 700 Views
I recall that one. Very bittersweet. As is most of the end of the trilogy. *NM* Ghavrel - 27/06/2017 12:43:16 AM 440 Views
I didn't say it was, I said that people like coming up with nonsense like that *NM* Cannoli - 27/06/2017 11:05:58 AM 458 Views
I got placed into Slytherin at Pottermore back in the day. The Shrike - 26/06/2017 01:30:13 PM 767 Views
Re: I got placed into Slytherin at Pottermore back in the day. Ghavrel - 26/06/2017 05:43:34 PM 746 Views
Your replies do show a large streak of Slytherinesque views. I think you were mishoused. The Shrike - 26/06/2017 06:06:09 PM 754 Views
Nah. I have vague glimmerings of a conscience. Disqualifying trait for House Sociopath. *NM* Ghavrel - 26/06/2017 06:08:44 PM 408 Views
Ah I see. You're in denial. In the closet as it were. The Shrike - 26/06/2017 06:27:37 PM 561 Views
Yet you're studying for the bar so you can join Profession Sociopath. Tom - 26/06/2017 07:56:47 PM 703 Views
Ugh. Don't remind me. *NM* Ghavrel - 26/06/2017 07:58:03 PM 392 Views
Meanwhile future "sociopath" The Shrike - 28/06/2017 12:20:27 PM 611 Views
I'm going into public defense. Don't be too proud of yourself. Ghavrel - 28/06/2017 08:31:04 PM 706 Views
Just a self-righteous and masochistic form of sociopath. *NM* Tom - 28/06/2017 10:05:18 PM 474 Views
But intensely charitable in its sociopathy! Ghavrel - 28/06/2017 10:54:14 PM 581 Views
How many years, do you guess, as a PDA before he bails for the bucks? damookster - 28/06/2017 11:13:43 PM 625 Views
I went to law school specifically to be a public defender. Bailing is unlikely. Ghavrel - 29/06/2017 12:19:42 AM 692 Views
You are an American, bail---ing is part of our judicial system Roland00 - 29/06/2017 02:45:05 AM 694 Views
I thought about making that pun but demurred. Ghavrel - 29/06/2017 03:22:46 AM 607 Views
Well we slytherin folk we have our own role models in regards to humor Roland00 - 29/06/2017 04:50:58 AM 610 Views
Well we slytherin folk we have our own role models in regards to humor Roland00 - 29/06/2017 04:50:58 AM 725 Views
The Practice aired what 8 seasons, 7 with Bobby, only to be replaced with the much better show Roland00 - 29/06/2017 02:42:07 AM 589 Views
I re-watched the eight HP movies a while back. Legolas - 26/06/2017 07:38:39 PM 757 Views
You think "Eyebrows" Watson improved the films? Yeesh. *NM* Ghavrel - 27/06/2017 01:59:55 AM 595 Views
What do her eyebrows have to do with anything? And yes, I do. *NM* Legolas - 27/06/2017 06:13:20 AM 452 Views
They comprise about 98% of what passes for her acting ability. Ghavrel - 27/06/2017 06:14:31 AM 604 Views
Nonsense. She does a great job - at least in those movies, haven't seen her in anything else. Legolas - 27/06/2017 06:20:26 AM 648 Views
Hasn't BEEN in anything else. That anyone else saw, anyway. Cannoli - 27/06/2017 03:18:48 PM 736 Views
Pretty sure that a lot of people saw her in Beauty & The Beast The Shrike - 27/06/2017 03:26:29 PM 674 Views
In which, incidentally, she could neither act nor sing. *NM* Ghavrel - 28/06/2017 03:13:32 AM 457 Views
That's not the point. The point is she was seen in a film that garnered over $1billion. *NM* The Shrike - 28/06/2017 12:18:14 PM 432 Views
The point is she hasn't been in anything that would support a positive assessment of her ability Cannoli - 01/07/2017 02:56:26 PM 634 Views
Voldemort came from Slytherin. He was awesome. Tom - 26/06/2017 01:50:46 PM 684 Views
*NM* Ghavrel - 26/06/2017 05:44:33 PM 425 Views
One of the rather few things in the series that I'd say Rowling got wrong... Legolas - 26/06/2017 07:32:43 PM 678 Views
I agree with most of this. Ghavrel - 27/06/2017 01:03:19 AM 745 Views
As a fellow "Never Slytherin"... Clover - 27/06/2017 12:22:17 AM 933 Views
Re: As a fellow "Never Slytherin"... Ghavrel - 27/06/2017 01:15:15 AM 664 Views
Perhaps the houses Roland00 - 28/06/2017 01:44:35 AM 660 Views
Anti-hype? nossy - 27/06/2017 10:35:22 AM 686 Views
Ok, so, everybody beat me to it nossy - 27/06/2017 10:45:33 AM 652 Views
Nossy you are our hufflepuff Roland00 - 28/06/2017 01:47:40 AM 634 Views
Re: Anti-hype? Cannoli - 27/06/2017 03:24:12 PM 676 Views
Re: Anti-hype? Ghavrel - 28/06/2017 03:21:59 AM 528 Views
Re: Anti-hype? nossy - 28/06/2017 01:14:09 PM 610 Views
Stop it, you are meant to enjoy the books not analyze them to death. Roland00 - 28/06/2017 01:40:41 AM 590 Views
I don't watch anime. RWBY is safe. *NM* Ghavrel - 28/06/2017 03:12:56 AM 329 Views
Hun, that product is made in America it is not Anime Roland00 - 28/06/2017 03:17:45 AM 603 Views
That's anime. I don't watch anime or its derivatives. But if you want me to criticize it... *NM* Ghavrel - 28/06/2017 03:23:01 AM 382 Views
Perhaps you should watch it Roland00 - 28/06/2017 03:29:59 AM 544 Views
Enjoyment =/= thinking about, or having feelings toward, something. Good to know Cannoli - 01/07/2017 02:57:42 PM 576 Views
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