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Moved to [[Fridge Brilliance]] under Literature, folder Harry Potter: The Houses of Hogwarts and the traits they represent: Gryffindor = Courage, Hufflepuff = Loyalty, Ravenclaw = Intellect, Slyhterin = Ambition. It occurred to me later that while all of these traits can be taken to extremes, those extremes are most dangerous to other people are those of Slytherin (well, ambition, duh) and with Hufflepuff (in terms of blind loyalty to the wrong people; yep, another oblique WWII reference) in second place. Excessive intellectualism is mostly just the ivory tower syndrome (detaching one from other people and the real world), while excessive courage is most dangerous to one\'s self. Perhaps that\'s why the Founder Slytherin left the school first, and why so many Slytherins became Death Eaters.
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Moved to FridgeBrilliance under Literature, folder Harry Potter: The Houses of Hogwarts and the traits they represent: Gryffindor = Courage, Hufflepuff = Loyalty, Ravenclaw = Intellect, Slyhterin = Ambition. It occurred to me later that while all of these traits can be taken to extremes, those extremes are most dangerous to other people are those of Slytherin (well, ambition, duh) and with Hufflepuff (in terms of blind loyalty to the wrong people; yep, another oblique WWII reference) in second place. Excessive intellectualism is mostly just the ivory tower syndrome (detaching one from other people and the real world), while excessive courage is most dangerous to one\\\'s self. Perhaps that\\\'s why the Founder Slytherin left the school first, and why so many Slytherins became Death Eaters.
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My personal Fridge Brilliance moment comes from the Houses of Hogwarts and the traits they represent: Gryffindor = Courage, Hufflepuff = Loyalty, Ravenclaw = Intellect, Slyhterin = Ambition. It occurred to me later that while all of these traits can be taken to extremes, those extremes are most dangerous to other people are those of Slytherin (well, ambition, duh) and with Hufflepuff (in terms of blind loyalty to the wrong people; yep, another oblique WWII reference) in second place. Excessive intellectualism is mostly just the ivory tower syndrome (detaching one from other people and the real world), while excessive courage is most dangerous to one\'s self. Perhaps that\'s why the Founder Slytherin left the school first, and why so many Slytherins became Death Eaters.
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Moved to [[Fridge Brilliance]] under Literature, folder Harry Potter: The Houses of Hogwarts and the traits they represent: Gryffindor = Courage, Hufflepuff = Loyalty, Ravenclaw = Intellect, Slyhterin = Ambition. It occurred to me later that while all of these traits can be taken to extremes, those extremes are most dangerous to other people are those of Slytherin (well, ambition, duh) and with Hufflepuff (in terms of blind loyalty to the wrong people; yep, another oblique WWII reference) in second place. Excessive intellectualism is mostly just the ivory tower syndrome (detaching one from other people and the real world), while excessive courage is most dangerous to one\\\'s self. Perhaps that\\\'s why the Founder Slytherin left the school first, and why so many Slytherins became Death Eaters.
