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pinky0926 posted...

I think one of the worst things that happened in the final book is how there was just no redemption arc for slytherin.

I mean I was kind of expecting that there'd be some lesson in there about how it's not the house, it's the individuals, and that being ambitious is not inherently bad. But nope. The whole damn lot just continued to be universally evil until they were locked in the dungeon.

It felt like some weird kind of...racism? Or some kind of discrimination of some sort. "look these are just bad people, no question".

The problem comes from JK being fucking awful at worldbuilding. She never established any kind of sympathetic Slytherin student (outside of last minute Malfoy and he's a shit for 99% of his runtime) and even Slughorn is a kind of last minute thing, so there's no character there besides smug evil kids and then she just has them locked in the dungeon for the final battle.

Would have been way better to establish throughout the books that Malfoy and crew are poor representatives of the house and make it clear that most of them are fine.