A 评论 made on my 前一个 文章 about Lily Evans motivated me to write this one. I will try to explain why I think most Slytherins, as portrayed in the books, shouldn't be considered 'good', but 'not bad' at best. When I say 'most Slytherins', I mean everyone Harry dedicated a few thoughts to except for Andromeda who remains unknown.
Salazar Slytherin's favourite students were the ambitious and cunning ones, preferably purebloods. While none of those traits are negative, the house still managed to produce 更多 dark wizards than any other. Voldemort is Slytherin's descendant and most of his followers are also Slytherins (funnily, though, it was a Gryffindor who brought him back). All the villians are Slytherins (at least on first sight) and they're either murderers, bullies 或者 nasty at best. They mostly support Voldemort and agree with his views. This has been repeated over and over. I didn't have their political 查看 in mind when I stated they were 'not bad' at best. Slytherins are not bad at best because they're egocentric and because they have no class.
I'll start with Snape, a Death Eater who turned out to be good in the end. In my opinion he changed sides because of Lily, not because he realised pureblood supremacist 查看 were wrong. He liked being a Death Eater because he was in power and he was respected. He changed his mind when the woman he loved became a target. If Lily and James left the country and were never heard of again. I doubt he'd change sides. How does that make him any better than any other Death Eater? Basically the same thing happened to the Malfoys, yet nobody says they're good. Secondly, he was awful to Harry, Neville and Hermione throughout the series. He knew how terrible childhood Harry had and he still treated him so badly. An 11-year-old. Why? Because he was immature and couldn't let go of his hatred for James. Harry was disgusted when he saw how James treated Snape. He didn't deserve such unfair treatment from Snape. Snape also made fun of Neville even though he knew what happened to his parents (partly thanks to him). He was mean and inconsiderate. He also made fun of Hermione's looks. A little girl's looks. And he's her teacher. If 你 were the teacher would 你 be that mean to similar students (two boys who 迷失 their parents and a not so pretty girl)? In my opinion Snape wasn't good, nor brave. He was just in 爱情 with Lily and felt bad because of what happened to her thanks to him.
Moving on to Lucius. His political 查看 aside, he didn't hurt the children in the DoM and he tried to keep things calm, he also didn't call Hermione a 'mudblood', but he was so mean to the Weasley kids for no reason whenever he encountered them. Back in CoS,Lucius was furious because of the raids and he decided to have his revenge on Arthur. How? 由 using his daughter. An 11-year-old child. A low kick in my opinion, especially since he's a father himself. Can anybody imagine Arthur (or even Sirius for that matter) using Draco to get to Lucius? I don't think so. Lucius could've simply bribed/put under the Imperius curse 做傻事, 福吉 to 火, 消防 Arthur. Playing dirty is one thing, playing dirty 由 using someone's child is disgusting.
Narcissa. She turned out to be relatively okay because she turned against Voldemort and lied to help Harry. Relatively okay. Her little speech about Sirius' death in HBP to Harry was really nasty. She showed she had no class. If Lucius was killed 由 an auror in a battle can anybody imagine Molly saying those things to Draco at Madam Malkin's. No. And Molly is far from a Malfoy-lover. Not to mention Sirius was her cousin, no matter what she thought of him.
Draco was nasty from the start. There's very little to say about him. From making fun of Harry and Ron's parents to calling Hermione 'a mudblood'. He showed he had no class. Basically the same goes for Pansy.
Regulus is mix between Draco and Snape. We know very little about him, but we do know one important thing: he decided to desert Voldemort partly because Voldemort threatened to kill his house-elf. It's just amazing how apparently an elf's life is 更多 important than a muggleborn's life in his eyes. Snape changed sides because of Lily, Regulus because of Kreacher. Neither man really changed his 查看 in my opinion.
Horace Slughorn at least didn't want to 加入 the Death Eaters. However, this man knew why Voldemort lived and he 说 nothing.Why? Because he couldn't face the consequences of what he did. He didn't want to say anything because it would 显示 him in bad light, teaching students dark arts and all. It didn't matter to him that innocent people were getting killed. Harry had to take Felix Felicis potion to get anything out of him. If it wasn't for the potion,they'd never find out how many horcruxes there were. While Slughorn was 更多 good than bad, he showed he was a coward. There's nothing wrong with being emarrassed of what 你 did 或者 being afraid of what people might think (he had good intetions when he told Tom Riddle about the horcruxes), but people were in danger and he didn't want to share the information he had. He could've confided in Dumbledore, he wouldn't be sent to Azkaban for what he did. Yet his reputation was 更多 important to him.
I won't 评论 on Bellatrix as she was clearly affected 由 Azkaban. We don't know what she was like during the First War.
To conclude, the people I mentioned were all Slytherins. A few of them were even helpful and Harry named his son in honour of one of them. But while they did some good, they weren't what 你 would normally call 'good people'. They were nasty and egocentric, sometimes cowardly and often showed they had no class. They were worse than members of other houses. That said, my favourite characters are still Slytherins (Narcissa and Slughorn). Frankly, I wish we found out 更多 about Andromeda.
Salazar Slytherin's favourite students were the ambitious and cunning ones, preferably purebloods. While none of those traits are negative, the house still managed to produce 更多 dark wizards than any other. Voldemort is Slytherin's descendant and most of his followers are also Slytherins (funnily, though, it was a Gryffindor who brought him back). All the villians are Slytherins (at least on first sight) and they're either murderers, bullies 或者 nasty at best. They mostly support Voldemort and agree with his views. This has been repeated over and over. I didn't have their political 查看 in mind when I stated they were 'not bad' at best. Slytherins are not bad at best because they're egocentric and because they have no class.
I'll start with Snape, a Death Eater who turned out to be good in the end. In my opinion he changed sides because of Lily, not because he realised pureblood supremacist 查看 were wrong. He liked being a Death Eater because he was in power and he was respected. He changed his mind when the woman he loved became a target. If Lily and James left the country and were never heard of again. I doubt he'd change sides. How does that make him any better than any other Death Eater? Basically the same thing happened to the Malfoys, yet nobody says they're good. Secondly, he was awful to Harry, Neville and Hermione throughout the series. He knew how terrible childhood Harry had and he still treated him so badly. An 11-year-old. Why? Because he was immature and couldn't let go of his hatred for James. Harry was disgusted when he saw how James treated Snape. He didn't deserve such unfair treatment from Snape. Snape also made fun of Neville even though he knew what happened to his parents (partly thanks to him). He was mean and inconsiderate. He also made fun of Hermione's looks. A little girl's looks. And he's her teacher. If 你 were the teacher would 你 be that mean to similar students (two boys who 迷失 their parents and a not so pretty girl)? In my opinion Snape wasn't good, nor brave. He was just in 爱情 with Lily and felt bad because of what happened to her thanks to him.
Moving on to Lucius. His political 查看 aside, he didn't hurt the children in the DoM and he tried to keep things calm, he also didn't call Hermione a 'mudblood', but he was so mean to the Weasley kids for no reason whenever he encountered them. Back in CoS,Lucius was furious because of the raids and he decided to have his revenge on Arthur. How? 由 using his daughter. An 11-year-old child. A low kick in my opinion, especially since he's a father himself. Can anybody imagine Arthur (or even Sirius for that matter) using Draco to get to Lucius? I don't think so. Lucius could've simply bribed/put under the Imperius curse 做傻事, 福吉 to 火, 消防 Arthur. Playing dirty is one thing, playing dirty 由 using someone's child is disgusting.
Narcissa. She turned out to be relatively okay because she turned against Voldemort and lied to help Harry. Relatively okay. Her little speech about Sirius' death in HBP to Harry was really nasty. She showed she had no class. If Lucius was killed 由 an auror in a battle can anybody imagine Molly saying those things to Draco at Madam Malkin's. No. And Molly is far from a Malfoy-lover. Not to mention Sirius was her cousin, no matter what she thought of him.
Draco was nasty from the start. There's very little to say about him. From making fun of Harry and Ron's parents to calling Hermione 'a mudblood'. He showed he had no class. Basically the same goes for Pansy.
Regulus is mix between Draco and Snape. We know very little about him, but we do know one important thing: he decided to desert Voldemort partly because Voldemort threatened to kill his house-elf. It's just amazing how apparently an elf's life is 更多 important than a muggleborn's life in his eyes. Snape changed sides because of Lily, Regulus because of Kreacher. Neither man really changed his 查看 in my opinion.
Horace Slughorn at least didn't want to 加入 the Death Eaters. However, this man knew why Voldemort lived and he 说 nothing.Why? Because he couldn't face the consequences of what he did. He didn't want to say anything because it would 显示 him in bad light, teaching students dark arts and all. It didn't matter to him that innocent people were getting killed. Harry had to take Felix Felicis potion to get anything out of him. If it wasn't for the potion,they'd never find out how many horcruxes there were. While Slughorn was 更多 good than bad, he showed he was a coward. There's nothing wrong with being emarrassed of what 你 did 或者 being afraid of what people might think (he had good intetions when he told Tom Riddle about the horcruxes), but people were in danger and he didn't want to share the information he had. He could've confided in Dumbledore, he wouldn't be sent to Azkaban for what he did. Yet his reputation was 更多 important to him.
I won't 评论 on Bellatrix as she was clearly affected 由 Azkaban. We don't know what she was like during the First War.
To conclude, the people I mentioned were all Slytherins. A few of them were even helpful and Harry named his son in honour of one of them. But while they did some good, they weren't what 你 would normally call 'good people'. They were nasty and egocentric, sometimes cowardly and often showed they had no class. They were worse than members of other houses. That said, my favourite characters are still Slytherins (Narcissa and Slughorn). Frankly, I wish we found out 更多 about Andromeda.
It began with hello;
but ended before goodbye.
Niether of us thought
that either of us would die.
It started one fall day,
I was way in over my head;
all I needed was a friend.
I grew up 由 your side,
你 grew up 由 mine.
We didn't know
I was living on borrowed time.
But now here I lay,
ahem, lie;
dressed in white,
blank eyes to the sky.
你 walk over slowly and whisper goodbye.
你 look so odd as 你 begin to cry.
Goodbye to 你 also, my friend
but in my sight,
our friendship will never die.
-Inspired 由 the final battle
but ended before goodbye.
Niether of us thought
that either of us would die.
It started one fall day,
I was way in over my head;
all I needed was a friend.
I grew up 由 your side,
你 grew up 由 mine.
We didn't know
I was living on borrowed time.
But now here I lay,
ahem, lie;
dressed in white,
blank eyes to the sky.
你 walk over slowly and whisper goodbye.
你 look so odd as 你 begin to cry.
Goodbye to 你 also, my friend
but in my sight,
our friendship will never die.
-Inspired 由 the final battle
I'll make this short but why did the 电影院 do this. In the 图书 Padma Patil was a ravenclaw while in the 电影院 she was gryfindor.Now just like how Harry's eyes are green in the book and blue in the movie (yes I know Dan cant wear the contacts) but it is , in my opinion ANNOYING! Whats with all these stuff ups?
I mean in deathly hallows part one Harry was himself not barry. I mean WTF? Also in Prisoner of Azkaban in the quidditch match, cedric caught the snitch as Harry fell. But in the 电影院 he got struck 由 lightning.
Obviously someone else in the world thinks that the 电影院 stuff ups a little annoying. Does anyone agree/disagree i want to hear. (Please dont be offensive though and have 以前 at my intelligence, its happened before and quite annoying)also I know the 电影院 are great so dont think i hate them.
I mean in deathly hallows part one Harry was himself not barry. I mean WTF? Also in Prisoner of Azkaban in the quidditch match, cedric caught the snitch as Harry fell. But in the 电影院 he got struck 由 lightning.
Obviously someone else in the world thinks that the 电影院 stuff ups a little annoying. Does anyone agree/disagree i want to hear. (Please dont be offensive though and have 以前 at my intelligence, its happened before and quite annoying)also I know the 电影院 are great so dont think i hate them.
Well I personally like the epilogue, I mean I 爱情 it , I think it's well written and everything, but I feel weird about it becausese I feel like if I'm watching my 老友记 或者 myself all grown up with kids an everything :D and I don't know it's weird for me, I don't know how I'm going to react when I watch it in DH part 2, it'll be weird for me. I mean we have seen harry, ron and hermione from 11 years old to 17 and then the epilogue they are all grown up and I feel just weird.
Please don't miss understand me. I do like the epilogue :D
Please don't miss understand me. I do like the epilogue :D