They’re technically supposed to be the “cunning” house, and while that attracts all the villains it also has some normal people. Tbough in that same vain I want to see a Khorne Berserker taking a house placement test and getting Griffyndor, ya know? Anyway, all of Slytherin’s nuance seems to have come from the fans, which makes sense because JKR is not exactly capable of that on her own. I feel like people like the world because it’s such a blank canvas, but JKR acts like printing the paper makes her the artist and she’s not even the first to do it.
I have an attachment because my mom and I read them together as I grew up but I’m totally fine throwing the books in the garbage and keeping the memory. We also read Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, so I can hang onto those, too.
You make a good point about her writing. My favorite author is hp lovecraft.
Lovecraft is a terrible writer. He had good ideas for stories but the writing itself was just flat out bad.
I love the Harry Potter books. Jkr is also kind of a garbage writer. Sorry, it’s just the way it is lol.
The story is good tho.
As for the cunning part I think maybe she was trying to imply that… but even the founders of the houses it’s like “hufflepuff was a powerful witch and Salazar slytherin was a dick and nobody really like him”
There isn’t much subtly in it. He was just an asshole who was there.
Reading his work is a task. Brilliant idea guy but “ the portrait which stared back at him like a year-adding and century-recalling mirror.” Yeah we all have one of those year adding century recalling mirrors laying around to compare this idea to.
Thanks for explaining the complex concept of “painting looks kinda like that dude” into something I (a lay person) can understand.
He’s describing it’s like looking into one those bazar and specific magic mirrors we all have. So we can follow the story now that we understand the difficult concept of painting looking like a dude. Thanks lovecraft!
To be clear lovecraft is also very good at suspense in a new way (edit: new at the time) You know the monster is a monster but the character hasn’t figured it out yet. So you’re waiting and for them to figure it out.
Chef kiss. Brilliant. However that’s also an idea. The actual writing is like a hyper-hyphenated pit of radioactive snakes who have daddy issues with the snake god yig who wants to protect snakes but also uses snakes as punishment in situations where they snakes will absolutely die but shows a dramatic point about protecting snakes I guess kinda.
That’s lovecraft.
I’m his biggest fan. I spent $1000 to have a custome mistkatonic university ring made. Love his work. Not a great writer and also racist in the phobia sense not the “I’m better” sense. He legitimately fears Irish people and their witchcraft.
It also doesn’t help that Lovecraft was at the tail end of an old style of writing while in many ways being a forerunner of a newer style. Makes his works kinda clunky if that makes sense, like I get the same feeling from Mark Twain for example. So the tedium probably comes from being not quite old not quite modern where it just ends up awkward, also tack on the fact he was revolutionizing suspense in a lot of ways and yeah… Not fun.
I was under the impression that Slytherin was about ambition, not just cunning. You have to not only be cunning, but also be ambitious enough to want to use that cunning to get one over on everyone else. Even Horace Slughorn used his cunning to further his own position, and he was considered the ‘best’ Slytherin in the book, so that’s their best foot forward!
Oh well, could be worse, you could be in Hufflepuff, which consists almost entirely of the ‘boring’ students. The rejects, the terminally useless, the basic bitches.
They’re technically supposed to be the “cunning” house, and while that attracts all the villains it also has some normal people. Tbough in that same vain I want to see a Khorne Berserker taking a house placement test and getting Griffyndor, ya know? Anyway, all of Slytherin’s nuance seems to have come from the fans, which makes sense because JKR is not exactly capable of that on her own. I feel like people like the world because it’s such a blank canvas, but JKR acts like printing the paper makes her the artist and she’s not even the first to do it.
I have an attachment because my mom and I read them together as I grew up but I’m totally fine throwing the books in the garbage and keeping the memory. We also read Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, so I can hang onto those, too.
You make a good point about her writing. My favorite author is hp lovecraft.
Lovecraft is a terrible writer. He had good ideas for stories but the writing itself was just flat out bad.
I love the Harry Potter books. Jkr is also kind of a garbage writer. Sorry, it’s just the way it is lol.
The story is good tho.
As for the cunning part I think maybe she was trying to imply that… but even the founders of the houses it’s like “hufflepuff was a powerful witch and Salazar slytherin was a dick and nobody really like him”
There isn’t much subtly in it. He was just an asshole who was there.
Why do you say Lovecraft was a bad writer?
I’ve read all his work. Including old bugs.
Reading his work is a task. Brilliant idea guy but “ the portrait which stared back at him like a year-adding and century-recalling mirror.” Yeah we all have one of those year adding century recalling mirrors laying around to compare this idea to.
Thanks for explaining the complex concept of “painting looks kinda like that dude” into something I (a lay person) can understand.
He’s describing it’s like looking into one those bazar and specific magic mirrors we all have. So we can follow the story now that we understand the difficult concept of painting looking like a dude. Thanks lovecraft!
I love lovecraft. He’s not a great writer.
To be clear lovecraft is also very good at suspense in a new way (edit: new at the time) You know the monster is a monster but the character hasn’t figured it out yet. So you’re waiting and for them to figure it out.
Chef kiss. Brilliant. However that’s also an idea. The actual writing is like a hyper-hyphenated pit of radioactive snakes who have daddy issues with the snake god yig who wants to protect snakes but also uses snakes as punishment in situations where they snakes will absolutely die but shows a dramatic point about protecting snakes I guess kinda.
That’s lovecraft.
I’m his biggest fan. I spent $1000 to have a custome mistkatonic university ring made. Love his work. Not a great writer and also racist in the phobia sense not the “I’m better” sense. He legitimately fears Irish people and their witchcraft.
Dude had flaws and I akeowledge that.
It also doesn’t help that Lovecraft was at the tail end of an old style of writing while in many ways being a forerunner of a newer style. Makes his works kinda clunky if that makes sense, like I get the same feeling from Mark Twain for example. So the tedium probably comes from being not quite old not quite modern where it just ends up awkward, also tack on the fact he was revolutionizing suspense in a lot of ways and yeah… Not fun.
I lovve lovecraft but that’s his fault to. He was antiquated even for the time.
It’s like if I said “that thine would harketh onto me this fortnight”
Yeah my weird talking is holding me back. That’s my fault no one asked me to do that.
He was old fashioned even for his day. That was his choice.
I was under the impression that Slytherin was about ambition, not just cunning. You have to not only be cunning, but also be ambitious enough to want to use that cunning to get one over on everyone else. Even Horace Slughorn used his cunning to further his own position, and he was considered the ‘best’ Slytherin in the book, so that’s their best foot forward!
Oh well, could be worse, you could be in Hufflepuff, which consists almost entirely of the ‘boring’ students. The rejects, the terminally useless, the basic bitches.