I wrote and posted this quite quickly, so it's probably not the most well written thing ever. I wish now I'd made it a little cleaner.
This is about how, even though the war against Voldie was won, things like prejudice still live on as they did in the past. I tried to show scenes from each relevant generation in HP: Harry and Draco on their first trip to Hogwarts, Lily, Snape, Sirius, and James on their first trip to Hogwarts, Tom Riddle's trip to Hogwarts and feelings about the place, Dumbledore's friendship with Grindelwald. I tried to show all the ways these generations repeat patterns of prejudice by people in each of them not understanding or respecting each other.
Harry seems to catch a glimpse of these horrible patterns, and tries to make clear to Albus that everyone in Slytherin wasn't bad by telling Albus about his namesake, Snape. But imo, Harry doesn't do a very good job of clearing Slytherin's name, and then he goes on to say that you can opt out of Slytherin if it's really that distasteful to you. Which is of course what Harry himself did--maybe if Harry had been in Slytherin he'd've seen much earlier that not all Slytherins were bad?
Harry thinks Voldemort is vanquished. And he is. But as long as we judge people on things like names and Houses, rather than who we are, prejudice will always snowball into other Grindelwald's and Voldemorts.
I'm sorry I failed to make this point clearer to you; I hope this explanation helps.
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This is about how, even though the war against Voldie was won, things like prejudice still live on as they did in the past. I tried to show scenes from each relevant generation in HP: Harry and Draco on their first trip to Hogwarts, Lily, Snape, Sirius, and James on their first trip to Hogwarts, Tom Riddle's trip to Hogwarts and feelings about the place, Dumbledore's friendship with Grindelwald. I tried to show all the ways these generations repeat patterns of prejudice by people in each of them not understanding or respecting each other.
Harry seems to catch a glimpse of these horrible patterns, and tries to make clear to Albus that everyone in Slytherin wasn't bad by telling Albus about his namesake, Snape. But imo, Harry doesn't do a very good job of clearing Slytherin's name, and then he goes on to say that you can opt out of Slytherin if it's really that distasteful to you. Which is of course what Harry himself did--maybe if Harry had been in Slytherin he'd've seen much earlier that not all Slytherins were bad?
Harry thinks Voldemort is vanquished. And he is. But as long as we judge people on things like names and Houses, rather than who we are, prejudice will always snowball into other Grindelwald's and Voldemorts.
I'm sorry I failed to make this point clearer to you; I hope this explanation helps.