And that's how I'm going to "give another house the spotlight".

there has to be some good people in slythrin they cant all be 'evil' or by some magical means turn evil right when the hat calls out "SLYTHERIN"

You just have to look at Andromeda, Regulus, and Snape to pick no. Then, you just have to look at Bellatrix to reconsider that.
I don't think ALL Slytherins are evil. True, most of them are, but some aren't. After all, it's just like saying all Hufflepuffs are 'dumb' or all Ravenclaws are 'know-it-alls' or even that all Gryffindors are 'brave.'

*sigh* why do you people insit on hateing on Bellatrix, you never had to bring her into this. You could of lefrt it at the look at snape andormena and regulus point theres no need to 'look at Bellatrix and reconsider' Honestly she had to be good at one point in her life.

She's just a really good example of the "evil" Slytherin.

But we have no proof of her having an even slight chance of Bella being good. If she can murder her neice, do you think she would have been 'good' in another point?
I agree with LifesGood; that's why I said her name.
We don't 'insist' on hating her, we just do hate her. I suppose I'd be annoyed if people kept bringing up Hermione in a 'bad' way, so...
Still, it makes a good point.

I suppose you make a good point.

as for her showing no good... she shows some good in chaseing Nercissa all the way to Spinners end to stop her from makeing what she thought was a big mistake. Bella's will to want to keep her sister out of trouble is good right? Though she only shows it to Voldemort Bellatrix is loyal and devoted if she showed that to someone on the good side it would be a good trait, and her love for Voldemort shows that she does have the potential to love someone. Being able to feel love is a good thing.

She did chase Narcissa all the way to Spinner's End, and with Narcissa being her sister, I suppose that shows family love, but don't forget, she still disowned her sister Andromeda. And, the only reason Bella cared about Cissy going to Snape was because she herself didn't trust Severus, and she knew it would be betrayal to the Dark Lord if Cissy told anyone about 'the plan'.
True, Bellatrix is loyal, but she is loyal to the 'bad' side. She is devoted, but not to the 'good' side.
Bella does love Voldy (I don't know why!), and that gives her potential to love, but she killed her own niece (Nymphadora...)! If she can do that, kill her niece, than she can't have a lot of love in her.
PS Isn't this supposed to be about Slytherin's stereotype? Not a debate about Bellatrix?

I agree with all you said, Best.

And you of all people should know that debates change, you'd know by our debates, lol.

LOL, yeah... Remember when we started as Hufflepufs vs Gryffindor and ended up as Sirius vs Hermione? I wonder how that happened.... something about you having Tonks and us Sirius....

I think I said Sirius was the best Gryffindor, and you wouldn't have that. LOL.

Oh yes..... now I remember. Yes, I wouldn't have that, lol. Hermione FTW!

I see your points, but I was trying to prove that Bellatrix does in fact have some good qualities even though she uses them the wrong way. ... Yah we should probably get back on topic... so how about them Slythrins.

Well I think we're all agreed, that just because some Slytherins turn out evil, doesn't mean they all do, correct?

@Best: No, no. Sirius FTW.

pretty much :)

@ LG You Siriusly want to get into that again?
Hermione FTW.
@Zanhar: I agree, just because you're in Slytherin house doesn't mean you're evil.

You're the one that started it! I bet if there was a Sirius vs Hermione spot, we'd be the only one's on there.


Oh yeah, SIRIUS FTW.

Yeah, I thought of making one, since that's one of our favorite debates, but then I thought, 'Well, we're the only ones who are going to be on there....'
And, HERMIONE FTW.

Well, there really isn't a point to it. It doesn't even make sense... Like you could debate Sirius vs Remus or Hermione vs Ginny, and it would kind of make sense, but sirius vs Hermione just doesn't... Lol.

Yeah, it's just... weird. But, anyway....
Hermione FTW.

I didn't even say Sirius FTW... But I am now... SIRIUS FTW..

LOL, now Hermione is winning link But it might change....

Most dark wizards have been in slytherin, but that dosen't mean every person ever sorted into slytherin house is evil, plus Wormtail was in Gryffindor, and look at how he turned out.

Yes. Now that we all agree about Slytherins, can we get back off topic?

Off topic? Why..?

I dunno... :P

I voted on the pick lol

because off topic is fun... how about them potatos? ☺

Today I said to my friends:
"I really don't like Bellatrix. But she does have good qualities, like loyalty and her amazing talent. However, she uses them in the wrong way, because she is loyal to the dark side; if only she was loyal to us... and she uses her talents to kill and torture innocent people. "
And their reply was, "*nod*".

XD My friend hates Bellatrix and I told her the same stuff I tell you guys she disagrees, but I keep bothering her so she ignors my endless Bellatrix ♥ing, I talk about Bellatrix all the time. So my friends calls me obsessive and says I'm obsessed with Bellatrix who is obsessed with voldemort.

My friends haven't read all the books, so sometimes, they have no idea what I'm talking about... as with that time, you should have seen their expression! XD

What were their expessions like lol?

You know, like, "Whaaat? I have no idea what you are talking about..."

My friends reaction when I talk about Sirius, basically XD I tried to explain horcuxes to my one friend... Didn't work out so well.

I try not to spoil things for them, but I word it in such a way that they don't understand.

I've given up on my friends, they're never gonna read it. So I'll tell them all the spoilers I like.

When you tell them spoilers, though, it's harder to explain, because of the plot. Explaining why Snape was good to my friend was very hard (I didn't spoil it! Someone else did and she asked me to explain it!). And Horcruxes - impossible.

My friend wanted to know the whole POINT to Harry Potter -__- So I tell her "There's a very mean, evil wizard that wanted control, and if you went against him, he killed you. Harry's parents, you know the main character, they were against this mean wizard. So he killed his parents, but when he tried to kill Harry, things went wrong..." I got blank stares.

I tried to explain it as well. The hard part is the small details that are very important later on.

Every house has their good and bad points, their flowers and their rotten eggs, their Lumoses and their Noxes.

I do not think all of them turned out evil

^^I agree with Lina.

Thanks, though I'm pretty sure I spelled the spells (lol) wrong.

The think about being evil, is that to the Deatheaters, the Order members were evil. It's all relative.

All of them were evil.

They probably don't deserve this stereotype.

No, because not all of them are. There are some that are good.

I'm not evil...or am I?

We deserve it because most of us are. That doesn't make it true. Stereotypes rarely are.

And I agree with you Ninja-Kitten!
See what I laugh at about this! If it said are Hufflepuffs unimportant or stupid there would be 50% yes answer. Gee, I just LOVE stereotypes. *sighs and sits down*

Emily, no it would NOT. We are not hated here. It would be 100% no. I don't know why you don't realize this by now.

well two out of million turned out good that we know of but what about the others

The others weren't mentioned in the books because they weren't the main heroes. The main trio was from Griffindor and JKR focuses on this house. We know Slytherin so well because this is where most Death Eaters come from. You could actually compare Hufflepuff to Ravenclaw. They both are somewhere in the background.

Severus Snape, Slughorn and Draco were Slytheris and they weren't evil.
Draco was a bully, but still he wasn't evil. He is too affected by his father.

And Quirrell and Peter weren't Slytherins and they were evil.

Can I just say "SlytheriN" not "Slytheris" please?

Quirrell wasn't really evil, he was possessed by the Dark Lord.

What about Slughorn, Regulus Black or Andromeda Black?

I think that Slytherins aren't stereotyped just evil, but ambitious and certains. The fact that Slytherin is believe an evil house is that evils usually have those characteristics. Snape was a Slytherin, and yet in the end he showed how good in reality he was.