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Slytherin Rant
Dec. 16th, 2005 12:18 amIt's late and I'm bored, and when I'm bored I think.
The standard Harry Potter question/discussion: “What house are you?” or “What house would you be in where you at Hogwarts?”
We all know what house we are, I think.
The one thing that always gets me are about 90% of the people who identify as Slytherin. More and more I’m beginning to think it’s probably the most misunderstood house.
Slytherins are ambitious. The Slytherin archetype is someone who wants money, power, and social status. Why, then, do we get so many of these fans, usually teenagers who think it’s “Cool” to be in the “Bad” house identify themselves as being “In Slytherin?”
It’s probably the most frequently miss-sorted house as far as fans sorting themselves go.
A real life “Slytherin type” would not be the high school rebel, outsider, Goth/punk/cool kid whatever. They’d more likely be the smarmy clean-cut apple polisher trying to cozy up to the authority figures to forward their own career so they can become the types of lawyers who chase ambulances and get child molesters out of jail through legal loopholes for large sums of money, or business owners who try to screw their minimum wage workers out of their pensions so they can buy a second yacht.
A Slytherin kid would be more like the jocks in “Revenge of the Nerds” than anything else. So, what gives? Why do I see Goth kids with "Slytherin" sweatshirts and green wrist bands?
Oh well, just a rant.
The standard Harry Potter question/discussion: “What house are you?” or “What house would you be in where you at Hogwarts?”
We all know what house we are, I think.
The one thing that always gets me are about 90% of the people who identify as Slytherin. More and more I’m beginning to think it’s probably the most misunderstood house.
Slytherins are ambitious. The Slytherin archetype is someone who wants money, power, and social status. Why, then, do we get so many of these fans, usually teenagers who think it’s “Cool” to be in the “Bad” house identify themselves as being “In Slytherin?”
It’s probably the most frequently miss-sorted house as far as fans sorting themselves go.
A real life “Slytherin type” would not be the high school rebel, outsider, Goth/punk/cool kid whatever. They’d more likely be the smarmy clean-cut apple polisher trying to cozy up to the authority figures to forward their own career so they can become the types of lawyers who chase ambulances and get child molesters out of jail through legal loopholes for large sums of money, or business owners who try to screw their minimum wage workers out of their pensions so they can buy a second yacht.
A Slytherin kid would be more like the jocks in “Revenge of the Nerds” than anything else. So, what gives? Why do I see Goth kids with "Slytherin" sweatshirts and green wrist bands?
Oh well, just a rant.
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