@TheLowKing I know you're joking, but that is so unbelievably wrong of a statement (see: the Wreck-It Ralph movie, Breaking bad, and the United States's political climate).
All generalizations are over-generalizations, of course, but by and large I stand by my statement that generally, it's easier to be evil than to be good, to appeal to the worst in men; and in yourself. I don't know your first two examples, but I'd argue that the third supports my claim.
@TheLowKing Okay yeah, that's fair enough, but I'm just now realizing that you called the sorting Hat a villian and now I need to what silly hat lore I missed.
I don't know if there's any lore, but what do you think it does to a a 12 year old kid if an authority figure that is widely portrayed as infallible tells them they're Slytherin (ie. evil) and then force them to only hang out with all the other kids who've been told they're evil? I can hardly think of a better method of creating turning a quarter of your students into the in-universe equivalent of the SS!
@TheLowKing I'm not quite that invested into Harry Potter lore, but wasn't/isn't Slytherin more of 'mischevious pranksters' rather then evil? At least until Tom Riddle/Voldemort/You-Know-Who said "It's Voldemorting time" and Voldemorted all over the place. I feel like at some point we got about half of Slytherin explicitly hate the 'evil' label.
Also, wouldn't the Sorting Hat be WAY older then anything we see in the books (not including spin-offs and historical lore flashbacks). I feel like the thing's kinda necessary for the 4-house system to work. If it's not as old as Hogwarts, then it probably would have been one of the first Dumbledore did as Headmaster.
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