But Slytherins aren't automatically evil. They just value some things which contain the possibility of leading to evil. Ambition and resourcefulness, for instance. Not evil traits, unless your ambition is to rule the world and you're willing to kill people to do it.
The other aspect is that Salazar Slytherin kind of left the seeds for a culture of bigotry in the Wizarding World, and a part of that has lived on in Slytherin House. But not every student in that house is going to buy into it or follow that kind of thinking.
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Date: 2009-08-30 12:43 am (UTC)The other aspect is that Salazar Slytherin kind of left the seeds for a culture of bigotry in the Wizarding World, and a part of that has lived on in Slytherin House. But not every student in that house is going to buy into it or follow that kind of thinking.