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General Discussion / Re: What house are you?
« on: July 25, 2014, 07:45:08 pm »mhh well if the author said it, that's probably case closed. it's sort of a personal disappointment though.
Why is it disappointing?
because that's such an easy thing to say. "oh they aren't actually useless, they just have hidden strength, look here at this scene I deliberately build in to prove my point."
in the fifth book, the hat says (I don't know the english version, so I'll paraphrase):
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Gryffindor said: I only take the ones who are brave
Slytherin said: I only take the ones that are of pure blood, and cunning on top of it
Ravenclaw said: I only take the ones who are smart
Hufflepuff said: I will take them all, regardless of their talents
that was cool, because it meant that all Hufflepuffs are inherently less gifted than the other houses. it's not just something everyone says, it's actually true. you would never create a system like that, but it just happened to be like that because of what the founders did. the students are about 11 years old when they get distributed to their houses, you don't want to tell an 11 year old kid that he isn't special, so the hat had to make up some stuff. "oh, they're just, and they spare no efforts. fluff."
when they get older, they must find out the truth eventually, but it's probably something that's not talked about much. Dunno, I just thought that was really neat. it would've been cool if it was thematized more, but it was at least a little bit at the end of book 4.
but even with what rowling said, i still think that slytherin is way more about caring about your blood and legacy than anything else