I don’t necessarily object to “this house is generally filled with shitty people,” I object to the part where the books occasionally go “no, it’s for ambitious people and ambition often leads to corruption, but that doesn’t make them all bad,” then constantly undercuts its own premise by making almost every named Slytherin character both cruel and dumb, making almost all the Slytherin graduates evil, not really introducing any counterbalancing examples, and then doing absurd things like saying—in the climax of the final book when all of Hogwarts is coming together to fight Voldemort’s army—that all the Slytherin students were ejected because they unanimously voted to turn Harry over to Voldemort.
It isn’t the existence of “bad people frat” that bothers me. It’s the consistent incompetence with which the author tries to pretend she created a group and system with nuance that just isn’t there.
I don’t necessarily object to “this house is generally filled with shitty people,” I object to the part where the books occasionally go “no, it’s for ambitious people and ambition often leads to corruption, but that doesn’t make them all bad,” then constantly undercuts its own premise by making almost every named Slytherin character both cruel and dumb, making almost all the Slytherin graduates evil, not really introducing any counterbalancing examples, and then doing absurd things like saying—in the climax of the final book when all of Hogwarts is coming together to fight Voldemort’s army—that all the Slytherin students were ejected because they unanimously voted to turn Harry over to Voldemort.
It isn’t the existence of “bad people frat” that bothers me. It’s the consistent incompetence with which the author tries to pretend she created a group and system with nuance that just isn’t there.