From: tsbrueni@dcn.davis.ca.us   
      
   On Wednesday, July 25, 2007 at 11:52:40 PM UTC-7, Drusilla wrote:   
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   > > On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 21:27:39 -0700, "marli_0000@hotmail.com"   
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   > >> The Sorting Hat did its job according to the values of each founder,   
   > >> but again and again, there is no good to be said of Slytherin House.   
   > >> Shrewdness, cunning, ambition, selfishness.  Is it possible for a   
   > >> house to have no virtues whatsoever?  If not, what are Slytherin's   
   > >> positive attributes?   
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   > >> Is Slytherin merely the toxic waste dump of the Hogwarts student   
   > >> body--or could there be good, decent people also in that House?   
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   > > Re-read the last thing in the book said about Slytherin, as Harry   
   > > talks to his child at the train station:   
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   > Yes, but Al was still resented about being Slytherin, as though there is    
   > still apprehension about the house. And it always be, at least for more    
   > than 20 years. The last Dark Lord and mostly of his minions came from    
   > Slytherin.   
      
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   Albus Severus Potter gets Sorted into Slytherin!  He had met Scorpius on the   
   train, which must have abated his opposition to Slytherin!   
      
   He was a bit stunned, but not as stunned as I had expected.  I had thought   
   that he might scream and faint, or stomp on the hat!   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)