tflatte:

shaddy24:

I’m honestly so tired of the “poor poor Slytherins” bullshit flying around. They aren’t the oppressed group in the Harry Potter universe. They aren’t the people being hurt by societal beliefs and situations. They aren’t the people being stomped on by the ones in power. They ARE the ones in power. So many Slytherins are children of highly placed government officials, people who have societal power. Warrington whatever the fuck his name is wouldn’t be champion of the oppressed as Hogwarts Champion in the tournament, he’d be a symbolic representation of the upper class getting their spot. People booing him isn’t a bunch of elitist fucks hammering down on some poor sap, it’s a bunch of kids yelling at their bully getting the reward. Slytherin started as a supremacist group, and the rich, elite and powerful continue to have controlling interest in it. Muggleborn Slytherins wouldn’t be powerful, they’d be isolated, insulted and treated like second class students literally in their bedrooms. Slytherin Harry would here people violently insult, degrade and threaten people like his mother on a regular basis, and they wouldn’t change their minds and think that muggle borns are equal to them because of his presence. 

Slytherin is the upper class. They’re the wealthy who try to steal everything from those they consider beneath them. They’re representative of the powerful who hurt the weak. 

While we’re at it, the Chamber of Secrets is not a “panic room” and I wish that post would stop showing up on my dash. You don’t put a fuckhuge murder snake in a panic room and you sure as hell don’t put it in a SCHOOL for CHILDREN. Salazar Slytherin was aggressively fantasy-racist and the books are not subtle about this point.