It’s been a while since I’ve read the book, but it’s got rather a lot about how to keep people confused for your own purposes. Slytherins certainly wouldn’t care that Lewis was against such methods.
I don’t think the advice would be practical since it assumes the confuser has access to the confusee’s mind, both the ability to inspect it’s contents as well as plant and/or derail trains of thought.
It’s not a primer on how to influence people, it’s a discussion of the philosophy behind influencing people. It’s also something that a Slytherin would read for entertainment, in much the same way that a Gryfindor would read The Chronicles of Narnia.
The Screwtape Letters as their intended to be read strike me as more Hufflepuff, and the portrayal of hell is sufficiently negative that I don’t see a Slytherin enjoying it by sympathizing with the demons.
I wonder where The Adventures of Tom Sawyer should be?
I say Gryffindor. Tom is obviously a Gryffindor, and though the tone of the book is somewhat mocking, he is nevertheless clearly the hero and triumphs in the end. (As far as I remember at least; I haven’t read it since I was a child).
Yet Twain’s ouvre spans all Houses: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is Hufflepuff, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court is Ravenclaw, and The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg is Slytherin.
Putting The Screwtape Letters in Slytherin strikes me as a case of completely missing the point.
It’s been a while since I’ve read the book, but it’s got rather a lot about how to keep people confused for your own purposes. Slytherins certainly wouldn’t care that Lewis was against such methods.
I don’t think the advice would be practical since it assumes the confuser has access to the confusee’s mind, both the ability to inspect it’s contents as well as plant and/or derail trains of thought.
It’s not a primer on how to influence people, it’s a discussion of the philosophy behind influencing people. It’s also something that a Slytherin would read for entertainment, in much the same way that a Gryfindor would read The Chronicles of Narnia.
The Screwtape Letters as their intended to be read strike me as more Hufflepuff, and the portrayal of hell is sufficiently negative that I don’t see a Slytherin enjoying it by sympathizing with the demons.
If you only read things as the author intended that they be read, you’re missing a large fraction of the entertainment value.
I wonder where The Adventures of Tom Sawyer should be?
I say Gryffindor. Tom is obviously a Gryffindor, and though the tone of the book is somewhat mocking, he is nevertheless clearly the hero and triumphs in the end. (As far as I remember at least; I haven’t read it since I was a child).
Yet Twain’s ouvre spans all Houses: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is Hufflepuff, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court is Ravenclaw, and The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg is Slytherin.
By the same logic, so would the Prince.
No, it wouldn’t. That would be different, bad, logic.