Some of the malice found among certain Slytherins is utterly pointless and bizarre, tarnishing everyone else's reputation in the process and leaving countless people with a deeply ingrained, wicked stereotype of the House.
In the words of Gloria and Tyres, they were a bunch of brainless dolts dragging their House's name through the mud, utterly convinced of their own innate nobility—a pack of late-stage second-year-syndrome fantasists who were fake aristocrats and genuine good-for-nothings.
Take, for instance, the person who had just appeared before Dorothea with an inexplicable, malicious attitude.
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