That's what happens when you make your series all about the well-meaning aristocrats who high-handedly set about to induce widespread change.
Yeah, and their surrounding characters, like Illyan. Slytherin basically equals any kind of complexity, whether it be of morals or of motives or of anything. Slytherin is only equal to "evil" in the sense that not being a mythological hero or a bookworm who does not exist outside of books ("beware the quiet ones" indicates a level of cunning/sneakiness/underhandedness/playing-nice-so-you-can-get-away-with-stuff, which means Slytherin) or a self-less, again, mythological character, means that you're evil by process of elimination.
Slytherin as written in the books really should be the biggest House ever, since it's everyone who is cunning or driven (aka "ambitious") or sneaky or, um, anything. If you're an interesting character, you're probably a Slytherin, because otherwise, you're not particularly interesting.
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Date: 2012-11-04 11:59 pm (UTC)Yeah, and their surrounding characters, like Illyan. Slytherin basically equals any kind of complexity, whether it be of morals or of motives or of anything. Slytherin is only equal to "evil" in the sense that not being a mythological hero or a bookworm who does not exist outside of books ("beware the quiet ones" indicates a level of cunning/sneakiness/underhandedness/playing-nice-so-you-can-get-away-with-stuff, which means Slytherin) or a self-less, again, mythological character, means that you're evil by process of elimination.
Slytherin as written in the books really should be the biggest House ever, since it's everyone who is cunning or driven (aka "ambitious") or sneaky or, um, anything. If you're an interesting character, you're probably a Slytherin, because otherwise, you're not particularly interesting.
(Is it very obvious I love Snape/Harry? ;) )