Enough of the anti-Slytherin bias!
So, there's a quote in the second Harry Potter book to the effect that Slytherin's house symbol is a snake because Salazar Slytherin was a parseltongue (able to speak/understand snake language). Which led me, recently, to say this: "What, so Godric Griffindor could speak with lions? Hufflepuff could converse with badgers? Ravenclaw listened to eagle songs about flying?"
Also, this whole "snakes have always been associated with the dark arts" crap is J.K. Rowling's obvious Christian bias leaking through. Snakes have only been associated with evil as long as Christianity has been around. Before then, it depended on the local culture, but mostly snakes were revered by the old pagans.
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Also, this whole "snakes have always been associated with the dark arts" crap is J.K. Rowling's obvious Christian bias leaking through. Snakes have only been associated with evil as long as Christianity has been around. Before then, it depended on the local culture, but mostly snakes were revered by the old pagans.
This was cross-posted from http://alex-antonin.dreamwidth.org/203868.html
You can comment either here or there.