There’s also the power behind the throne. Cardinal Richelieu was definitely a Slytherin.
Well yes he was. But he never organized a circle of Slytherins to permanently take over France.
And don’t forget how unsuccessful were Machiavelli—model of everything that is Slytherin.
How about the Vedic castes of India? Brāhmaṇa = Ravenclaw, Kṣatriya = Gryffindor, Vaiśya (later Śūdra) = Hufflepuff. Nobody admits to being a Slytherin, which is suspicious, don’t you think?
Brits were playing Indians against each other extremely successfully. They took over India before anybody even noticed.
Well yes he was. But he never organized a circle of Slytherins to permanently take over France.
And don’t forget how unsuccessful were Machiavelli—model of everything that is Slytherin.
Brits were playing Indians against each other extremely successfully. They took over India before anybody even noticed.
That’s a much later time period than Vedic society, but I like it all the same.
I didn’t realize we cared about such minor issues in a thread that involved analogies between Hogwarts houses and Communist revolutionary factions ;-)