Khác biệt giữa bản sửa đổi của “Harry Potter dành cho Muggle/Địa điểm/Nhà Slytherin”
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A more adult reader may have some questions about Slytherin House and how it is held up from the very beginning of the story as being less honorable than the other Houses. As early as [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Books/Philosopher's Stone/Chapter 5|''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'']], Slytherin house is being made a horrible example. [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Rubeus Hagrid|Hagrid]] says to Harry, "There's not a single witch or wizard who went bad who wasn't in Slytherin. You-Know-Who was one."
With that reputation firmly in place, it is difficult to see how the new student freshly sorted into Slytherin could possibly act to counter it. We note that what Voldemort espouses, and the stated platform of [[Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter/Characters/Gellert Grindelwald|Grindelwald]] before him, is that magical folk, and by extension those bred only from other witches or wizards, are somehow superior to Muggles and those descended from them. This echoes exactly the views of Salazar Slytherin, the founder of the House. The tradition of dishonesty and slyness associated with the House may have grown out of the need to conceal the House's common belief in Pure-Blood superiority, as apparently a majority of witches and wizards can count at least one Muggle in their recent ancestry.
However, once such an association is created in the masses, it is extremely hard to eradicate. And this quite possibly has led to reinforcement of the idea in Slytherin House. This would be a classical example of society creating the monsters that it fears and hates; and it is a far too human sort of behaviour. Perhaps the author is trying to point this out to her audience in a low-key manner, such that the children who read her books may be a little less susceptible to this in their own lives.
[[Category:Muggles' Guide to Harry Potter]]
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