Why did they even bother letting Slytherin be part of the school?

Why did they even bother letting Slytherin be part of the school?

Why even let people who voted for Trump live in America?

slytherin said he'd only help make/found the school if the others let him have a pureblood only house

Money. The wealthy elite were Slytherin.

We should force them to break away and go live in their own country called the Confederacy.

then how come some purebloods got sorted to other houses

this but unironically

If America was attacked Trump supporters would help defend it.

Hogwarts gets attacked and Slytherins all fuck off.

Because women can't construct believable fictional worlds, so there's literally the evil house, and it's evil because they have ambition.

Because the sorting hat decided they'd fit in elsewhere. Not all pure Aryans belong in the pure Aryan club.

I was so pissed when not one Slytherin student stayed to help fight Voldemort in that last book. What a bunch of crap.

How did they get away with many of the faux pas that riddled the books and movies? Oh wait they didn't, and that's why it will forever be cemented as easily one of the dullest franchises in the history of movie franchises. Each episode following the boy wizard and his pals from Hogwarts Academy as they fight assorted villains has been indistinguishable from the others. Aside from the gloomy imagery, the series’ only consistency has been its lack of excitement and ineffective use of special effects, all to make magic unmagical, to make action seem inert.

Perhaps the die was cast when Rowling vetoed the idea of Spielberg directing the series; she made sure the series would never be mistaken for a work of art that meant anything to anybody?just ridiculously profitable cross-promotion for her books. The Harry Potter series might be anti-Christian (or not), but it’s certainly the anti-James Bond series in its refusal of wonder, beauty and excitement. No one wants to face that fact. Now, thankfully, they no longer have to.

>a-at least the books were good though
"No!"
The writing is dreadful; the book was terrible. As I read, I noticed that every time a character went for a walk, the author wrote instead that the character "stretched his legs."

I began marking on the back of an envelope every time that phrase was repeated. I stopped only after I had marked the envelope several dozen times. I was incredulous. Rowling's mind is so governed by cliches and dead metaphors that she has no other style of writing. Later I read a lavish, loving review of Harry Potter by the same Stephen King. He wrote something to the effect of, "If these kids are reading Harry Potter at 11 or 12, then when they get older they will go on to read Stephen King." And he was quite right. He was not being ironic. When you read "Harry Potter" you are, in fact, trained to read Stephen King.

Three things.

One, a lot of the children in Slytherin have wealthy and influential parents, who are no doubt willing to make sure Hogwarts remains one of the finest schools for their ankle-biters to attend. Having their children be take part in the Slytherin 'frat culture' is no doubt part of their expectations of the school.

Two, there are positive traits associated with the house, surprisingly. Cunning, ambition, self-reliance, self-determination, pragmatism, and no small amount of networking are among them. A good school should be able to encourage the best out of different personalities for the benefit of everyone.

Three -and this might be the most important one- it might be a good idea to keep all the high-functioning sociopaths wrangled up into one group. Seeing as sending anyone sorted as a natural-born Slytherin directly to a guillotine would prove controversial for the reasons listed above, keeping the little antichrists from shitting up all the other houses by relation is a good move. Think about how much easier life would be if a large percentage of the horrible people were forced to wear a snake badge, ignoring the historical imagery that might invoke.

In fact Trump supporters would be the only ones to do so

Liberals couldn't bend the knee fast enough to any invader, especially if they're non-white

the series needed a well written slytherin character

Harry Potter is a decent setting. Rowling should let there be an EU so that more talented writers can use it.

The series needed a Slytherin character that wasn't a bad guy by default. But that would've required Rowling to write originality.

based dullest franchise poster

because we are america

libtards enjoy shit like harry potter

>#swoleleft

>get to sit in the dungeons while everyone is fighting and getting killed above.

Slytherin had it pretty good

how do I get a body like this?

Soy and veganism

Take more in your ass than your mouth.

There's a reason Slytherin is the favorite house of every chick that loves Harry Potter.

Soy enemas

The American houses make more sense imo.

I think you mean

>There's a reason Slytherin is the favorite house of every chick that loves Harry Potter that you should avoid.

Only cigarette diet

>stay and fight your dad
You didn’t think this through user

I liked Slughorn.

>simplified version of hog warts houses
Why is America so based and pragmatic

That makes no sense.
What's the difference between 'Heart' and 'Soul'. Or is 'Heart' the fleshy stuff. But isn't that body? Shouldn't healers be body focused?
If 'heart' is compassion, what's soul? Soul is meant to be about love; that's what she set up in the books.
Why didn't she just go with the traditional mind/body/soul and have three houses?
Is she so focused on being derivative that she has to copy the exact number of houses?

same reason why there is a left and right wing politics
the jews let you think there are sides when there are only jews and goyim

Heart is about empathy
Healers need empathy to want to heal. A soul doesn’t necessarily relate to others, it’s more individualistic, whereas a heart has connotations that involve other people
Empathy

I think soul is more like a 'free spirit' archetype.

All squares are rectangles but not all rectangles are squares

its kinda like how not all white people are national socialists

It's great that Sup Forums has become star wars threads and really low-quality trump bait

Gryffindor - Khorne
Hufflepuff - Nurgle
Ravenclaw - Tzeentch
Slythrein - Slaanesh

Voldemort wasn't a pureblood and he got in Slytherin.

Anyway, Hogwarts is supposed to revolve around the idea of house unity. Each house represents things that are necessary to succeed (bravery, ambition, kindness and wit), plus they also represent elements (fire, water, earth and air), so all four are needed. The theme of house unity is almost a discarded idea that was only hinted at by the sorting hat but never really made it into the story since gryffindor = everyone that matters, slytherin = dicks, ravenclaw = luna and hufflepuff = nobody of consequence. This theme has only been recently revisited and even retconned into the story by Rowling on pottermore et al, probably because nobody wanted to be a hufflepuff or a slytherin.

well the founder based the school heavily on hogwarts so yes she was trying to copy hogwarts.

Series would have been kino if it was revealed Voldemort was actually a Gryffindor.

The Heart house is the only house founded by a nomaj/muggle. I think this is key to understand what it means, and what sets it apart from the traditional trifecta of mind/body/soul, all of which have inherent magical qualities in the HP universe.

>who is Professor Slughorn?

> house is founded by a nomaj/muggle
What the fuck kinda clown world shit is that? It's a WIZARD school.

>92326800
So she baked her unoriginality into the lore? Top job JK.

So a special snowflake house. Or a selfish house?
If empathy is the heart, what is the body? The GET SWOLE house? If they aren't focused on bravery or courage which is based in love, they're a shitty house. Are they the gluttony, exercise, and fucking house? Pleasures of the flesh?

It's really not a good axis to base the houses on.

Should have gone with cardinal virtues — courage, justice, temperance, prudence.

First, you need to remember that the story is told through Harry's point of view. Slytherin is his rival house, and he's a judgemental person, so of course we never get a good picture of them. That doesn't mean they're all evil.

Relating to that, most of the people who end up in Slytherin don't turn evil. The traits that Slytherin values aren't necessarily frowned upon, even in our society; ambition, cunning, and a reliance on networking are basically what the entire business world is built on. B themselves, these aren't evil traits. Most people consider them positives, so it's not like people in the wizarding world would discourage it, either. Readers might judge the racism of the house, but you also have to remember that blood purity belief was pretty much standard in the wizarding world, so it also wasn't seen as a negative by most people. Slytherins are the old money, they dictate who belongs and what is acceptable, for the most part.

Basically, Slytherin kids are the ones you'd see in a prep school, or a majoring in business. Too many people make the mistake of judging them by Harry's standards, when nothing about the house itself necessitates its members turning evil.

>What the fuck kinda clown world shit is that? It's a WIZARD school.
The American school was founded by a witch and his husband, a nomaj/muggle who actually built the school. Alongside two wizards, they each founded a house and named it after a magical quality and beast they were close to. The nomaj, having no magic, went with heart and a beast that he had never seen, but was familiar with through his wife's stories.

It's actually a pretty neat story and I like how it's reflected on Fantastic Beast's nomaj/witch relationship.

Why do boys grow out of the Harry Potter fandom, but girls stay in it well into their 20s and 30s?

>so of course we never get a good picture of them. That doesn't mean they're all evil.
There isn't a single Slytherin that's likeable at any point in the stories. Snape may be heroic, but he acts like a dick throughout the entire saga.

The headmaster locking up the entire Slytherin
house in the dungeons during the battle of Hogwarts doesn't have to do with Harry's point of view. No Slytherins that aren't a very reluctant Slughorn fighting against Voldemort isn't Harry's point of view. Every single Death Eater or Death Eater sympathizer that isn't Wormtail being a Slytherin isn't Harry's point of view. These are all facts given in the book that show how shitty they are.

Rowling did retcon stuff like "nevermind, some Slytherins DID return to fight against Voldemort after fleeing, I just never mentioned it lol", and giving tidbits like how Merlin was a Slytherin (which makes no goddamn sense to begin with because Merlin's youth took place ages before the founding of Hogwarts), but let's not act like any of what you're inferring is actually implied at any point in the books. It never is, it's not even hinted at.

Hilariously enough, even though Rowling seemingly wants to retcon her stupid choice of painting Slytherin as the worst thing ever, even in Cursed Child the stigma returns, when Harry literally tells his son he wishes he never had him just because he's in fucking Slytherin and his best friend is a Slyherin. This, of course, IS Harry's perspective, but is something worth noting all the same.

The only reason I ever enter a thread even remotely having to do with Harry Potter is to make sure this gets posted

cursed child is some pretty terrible fan fic desu

WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU?

Let's be honest here, even with as little personality as they had, the qtpoo Patels were better than Ginny or Hermione.

why would they? what voldy wanted embodied the house philosophy pretty well

Does anyone know what a Hufflepuff actually is? I always imagined that it was a kind of tribble...

repostan

It's bullshit still, and this is the main downfall of Harry Potter's plot: it implies that your beliefs/preferences/perspectives as a fucking eleven year old are unchanging, everlasting, and worthy of defining your entire adult life. Voldemort embodied some aspects of Slytherin, but it's just insane that nobody in that house objected to a regime of constant and nigh permanent use of murder, torture and cruelty just because when they were eleven years old they wanted to get in the green club with the snake mascot.

>Slughorn
>Snape made some bad choices early on, but he spent the rest of his life trying to make up for those mistakes
>Draco was all bluster. When it came down to it, he wasn't capable of being the badass he imagined himself to be.
>Regulus Black sacrificed his life to help destroy Voldemort. Like Draco, he was enamored with the idea of making the Wizarding World great again, but he balked as soon as he realized what that would mean.

I want threesome with slytherin and ravenclaw emma while Hufflepuff emma wathces us.

It's the founding witch's last name

> magical quality
> represents the body
What magical quality is body? And how is intelligence a magical quality?
Wasn't the whole point of the books that the most powerful magic is love, meaning the nomaj picks the most magical one?

F E M D R A C O

>>Sup Forums

>but he spent the rest of his life trying to make up for those mistakes
He also spent the rest of his life mistreating and psychologically abusing all students that weren't Slytherin.
>Draco was all bluster. When it came down to it, he wasn't capable of being the badass he imagined himself to be
He also never fought against anything, went along with torturing and killing people, and acted as a jerk even until he was an adult.
>Regulus Black sacrificed his life to help destroy Voldemort
The only Slytherin that had some semblance of redemption (other than Slughorn, but he didn't really need to redeem himself from anything anyhow) and all he gets is like one paragraph in the entire seven books.

Come on.

For all its fanfic bullshit, Cursed Child at least finally did Slytherin characters justice.

Stop being so autistic about it user. They are vague for a reason

Not all slytherin are evil. Just the most famous evil dudes were slytherin

I know that, but sometimes last names are also proper nouns. 'Mr. Castle', 'Mrs. Field', etc..

Hufflepuff sounds like a proper noun, like some kind of animal or plant. If this is the case, my imagination thinks of a tribble...does anyone else have this condition, or am I just a nerd? lol
#heforshe

>unironically posting that image
Go back to /lit/ with the other psueds

The school to prison pipeline

> They are vague for a reason
That reason being JK is unable to think reasonably and her entire world rests on often contradictory sentiments.

Mind/intelligence is a magical quality, you need to know wtf you're doing to cast magic. So is body, which is related to soul (the founders of body and soul houses are literally twins), the body of a wizard is as important as his soul, Voldemort spent like 13 years looking for a body because as a soul he couldn't do anything.

Love is more powerful than magic itself. It's the one quality that's powerful for everyone, regardless of whether or not they're wizards.

...

Why didn't they immediately send everyone from Hufflepuff to public school?

pity

>you have no redeeming features so here you're in this house

/lit/ here. That image is a joke

snape?

/lit/ is a joke

You've really never heard of the whole mind/body/soul concept utilized in new age bullshit? Lucky guy.

> new age bullshit
Is that it? She's incorporating mindless boomer-women pseudo religious philosophy into her world.
Yea, I don't have any knowledge of that shit.

Don't let them in on the secret, user. HP girls are such an easy lay, it's ridiculous. All I need to do to seem like a cool fan of the series is talk about the best game, the Chamber of Secrets game, and talk about funny little tidbits from Sup Forums like poopus removus. And just like that my striped thigh high wearing, witch girl fetish is secured.

This
Finally someone knows the truth. Witchraft is heresy
Witches are for burning.

DUDE everything is magic if you believe hard enough LMAO. This post is magic, just look:

Praise Kek!

No dubs, trips or quads. Not very magical.

Obviously you've just got to believe harder than that.

>nomaj
so fucking stupid