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My exwife has a large slytherin tattoo. That house in pottery is just “the bad guys”. There’s not charecter arch or deeper meaning, no complexity in writing.
They are just the bad guys, who are evil and mean. That’s it. She loves em.
A lot of people have Empire tattoos, Decepticon tattoos, and so on. Fictional bad guys are just cool.
Warhammer 40k Chaos is also cool.
I love Zeon/Neo Zeon mobile suits. Don't agree with the views, but damn do they have some cool designs.
I mean, spacenoid rights, which is what Zeon Diekun preached, was not the same as the as the Principality of Zeon, which is the Zabi Family dictatorship, and the ones that gassed and dropped a colony.
At last, a true Zeonic! 🫡
They need to be more than bad guys. Darth Wader started as good guy, than became a bad guy, than redeemed himself. Nobody normal has a tattoo of nurse Ratchet.
Aside from the fact that the Empire did nothing wrong and brought peace to a galaxy living under the constant threat of the Jedi that casually kidnapped children to indoctrinate, not to mention tried to assassinate a democratically elected chancellor when things didn't go to their liking.
I think this is the first time I've seen someone regularly write "than" when it's actually supposed to be "then". Normally it's always the other way around.
I ain't no native speaker typing on a phone, so sorry.
I didn't mean anything bad, it's just I've never seen the opposite of than being typed instead of then. I'm on my phone lots too, all good!
There are cool fictional bad guys and annoying fictional bad guys like prince Joffrey (GoT), king Einon (Dragonheart), Dolores Umbridge (Harry Potter), Winn Adami (DS9).
Consider the alternatives:
Suicidal, stupid, trouble causing and seeking, bullying "brave" Griffindors.
Bookworm "smart", swot grinders Ravenclaws.
Sly and cunning, "ambitious" Slytherins.
Neither brave, smart or sly, menial workers Hufflepuffs.
Idk about you, but out of those options to me speaks the most "neither", but if I have to sleep somewhere, I'd wear green.
They weren’t particularly sly cunning or smart. Ambitious I’ll give you.
The book sets it up like slytherin and gryfindor are basically the same except one is evil.
I am quoting the books with cunning and ambitious. It also mentions resourcefulness.
It's just that the author is not that good with her craft and she made them Evil, shallow house in practice.
Or maybe it's the other way, and she did that on purpose, so that the early children book has visible low stake antagonist Malfoy, who does not really matter compared to BBEG.
I understand what you mean. They are said to be those traits but that is absolutely not portrayed in the book.
So if you’re reading the books or watching the movie and thinking “I relate to those guys” all there is to relate to is being “bad”
They don’t have anything else going for them in the story.
Yeah the sorting hat sorta tells Harry slitherin folks are destined for big things (not necessarily good, but big) but then there's dumbfucks like crabbe and goyle in there who couldn't accomplish shit.
Joanne Kowling Rowling didn't exactly stay consistent about things in those books.
Dude, Hufflepuffs got it right. "Nobody expects us to achieve anything, so they'll praise us if we just show up". That's a pro level life hack. They are the "take it easy" house. If The Dude was in Hogwarts, he'd be in Hufflepuff. If I was in Hogwarts I'd be in Hufflepuff.
hufflepuff definitely the stoner house. Entrance even located right by the kitchen
Their house teacher is the herbology teacher, definitely the stoner house.
Dude, the Hufflepuffs' dorms are described as cozy and are located near the kitchen, that's objectivelly the best place to sleep in.
I thought about it. But low ceiling and the fact they are described as basically background noise made me uninterested ultimately. :-)
The most powerful wizard out of the Triwizard tournament. "Background noise". If school houses are groups then the "best" of those school houses should say more than the perspective of a boy bias by being in a different group.
Edit: maybe I shouldnt say most powerful, best rounded? Idk.
Not because of the Snape "redemption" at the end of the movie?
She doesn’t have a snape tattoo. She has slytherin and deatheater tattoos.
Might as well get a swastika tattoo.
Yeah, that's why I mentioned the only notable character with positive attributes.
A stalker who worshipped one woman because she talked to him as a child and he decided to abuse orphaned children caused by the very hate group he was a part of. As Voldemort is supposed to be placed during WW2, snape became a NAZI by choice... Then only decided to oppose them when Hitler decided to kill someone he cared about.
Why he is such an ass to Neville we'll never understand.
I thought he hated Neville because who the chosen one was prophecy described either Harry or Neville, and Voldemort went after Harry, sealing who the prophecy was and sealing Harry's mother's fate, making Snape hate him because Neville's parents could have died instead of a woman that would have never gotten with his shit ass.
But it's been ages since I've read the books.
Nevilles parents were tortured to insanity by Snapes friend. "Not his friend" walks into his home and he doesn't kill them. How do we know it was done before.... Because they did it before Voldemort died. He was a baby who was orphaned because Snape was and will always be, worse than 99% of NAZI's. His actions after proved it
Idk I think Malfoy gets it rough, kid was basically raised in and surrounded by a cult 24/7 with the threat of being ostracized by his family, friends and basically everyone he'd ever known if he put a foot out of line. The fact that he got any redemption arc at all even if it was late is more than a lot of indoctrinated people manage IRL.