Slytherin Unity is stupid

Slytherin!Harry fics have to change a lot of things to make it partially believable. They often rely on fanon whitewashing or basically softening up the house for the sake of Harry. After all, canon-ish Harry won't last long in canon-ish Slytherin.

Not even Harry's possessions will be safe. We know from canon that Slytherins tend to be scumbags, so how long will it be until Harry's Invisibility Cloak (despite nobody knowing it's a Hallow) gets stolen? Imagine if Harry somehow gets the Marauder's Map and Draco finds out about it? The whole house will hear about it (unlike Ron and Hermione from canon, who are trustworthy).

It's a lot easier to have Harry be Sorted into any of the other three houses, as Slytherin is just not the place for him, despite the Sorting Hat's assessment. Fanon often leans on cringe political clichés and all that stuff to fit the plot for Slytherin!Harry.

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