Oh, cool, yeah! That's another good way to think about it, because you're completely right about this:
Everyone looks at his war hero reputation and conveniently forgets that he won those wildly overmatched battles through cunning rather than strength,
Cunning, and also also a willingness to manipulate / go against convention -- very Slyth. I hadn't thought about that bit of history, but absolutely, that's strong evidence of his Slytherinness.
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Date: 2019-02-06 08:28 pm (UTC)Oh, cool, yeah! That's another good way to think about it, because you're completely right about this:
Everyone looks at his war hero reputation and conveniently forgets that he won those wildly overmatched battles through cunning rather than strength,
Cunning, and also also a willingness to manipulate / go against convention -- very Slyth. I hadn't thought about that bit of history, but absolutely, that's strong evidence of his Slytherinness.