Yeah, Slytherin is just the house for all the evil racist people. A mildly smarter story would turn it into a commentary about traditions that are built on racist foundations, and have the victorious good guys eventually close it down. But the author is okay with it existing, because she's got fucked up Calvinist ideas about morality where you can just put an 11 year old in the nazi club because they were born evil. The wider Harry Potter media machine realized that people love the personality quiz aspect, so they play down the evil and focus on a throwaway line about Slytherin being the house of ambition. The fandom treats it as the house for cool misunderstood goth kids.
Yeah, Slytherin is just the house for all the evil racist people. A mildly smarter story would turn it into a commentary about traditions that are built on racist foundations, and have the victorious good guys eventually close it down. But the author is okay with it existing, because she's got fucked up Calvinist ideas about morality where you can just put an 11 year old in the nazi club because they were born evil. The wider Harry Potter media machine realized that people love the personality quiz aspect, so they play down the evil and focus on a throwaway line about Slytherin being the house of ambition. The fandom treats it as the house for cool misunderstood goth kids.