Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone begins J. K. Rowling's popularized series of fantasized wizardy that struck the world of literature and film in a variety of ways. While this book does captivate readers through an essence of magic and creativity that presents an opportunity of escapism for audience members, it implements issues in socioeconomics that raise concern for readers' consumption. This first novel illustrates a continuous pattern of prejudice relating to stereotypes of specific characters and houses within Hogwarts. It can be observed that one of the most prominent forms of prejudice makes itself known through the "hierarchy" of houses within Hogwarts. Although there is no official tier structure placing one house above the other, there are apperent views of which houses have better reputations than others. Throuhgout this story, numerous characters express their perceptions of specific houses and members of their world that stemmed from those houses. This is most evident through the negative views of Slytherin. There is a constant point acknowledged throughout the progression of the novel that all evil doers in the wizard world have grown through Slytherin, casting it as a house that nobody wants to be in (except for Slytherin's, themselves). Given the fact that this is the house that many of the "bad" characters are/were in, I think there is a misinterpretation of this house. The misconception being the idea that the Slytherin house is what trains characters to be "bad" rather than considering the idea that these characters have been raised to think certain ways prior to entering the school. I challenge you to think about what other reasons Slytherin is labeled as such a negative house.