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**** Technically Rowling wrote that there never was a bad wizard who didn't come from Slytherin. She never said good people don't come out of Slytherin. Your point still stand though.
***** Hagrid's comment about 'never was a bad wizard who didn't come from Slytherin' is itself shown later in the series to be only the product of ignorance and prejudice; even Hagrid knows that the person who betrayed the Potters to their death was a Gryffindor. Admittedly he was blaming the wrong person, but both the alleged traitor (Sirius Black) and the actual one (Peter Pettigrew) were not Slytherins, so Hagrid is, even if just restricted to in-character knowledge, still talking out his ass.
** Individually, fans started to dislike Harry's [[Wangst|irritable nature]] more and more after ''[[Harry Potter/Harry Potter and Thethe Order of Thethe Phoenix (novel)|Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix]]''. This contributed to increased favouritism of Draco, which JK Rowling admitted to disliking; she was a bit disturbed that people didn't like the hero and preferred Draco. She even admitted to punishing/exaggerating Draco and the Slytherins where she could to counteract it (which [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero|naturally just increased resentment that led some readers to prefer the villains in the first place]]). Alternatively, some people just genuinely wanted the Death Eaters to win the war. Perhaps because they deemed the dark characters to be more interesting, or because the ideology seemed rational, or because they might believe the whole series had an annoyingly [[Black and White Morality]] and was a tad too [[Anvilicious]]. Or simply because [[Evil Is Cool]].
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20130314080320/http://www.exposingsatanism.org/harrypotter2.htm This guy] takes it [[Up to Eleven]]. He's a Christian fundamentalist, and seriously thinks Voldemort is ''God''.
* [http://flyingmoose.org/tolksarc/theories/gandolt.htm Alternate interpretations] of ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'' have it as a highly biased account given by the real bad guys: the exiled Gondor and Elvish aristocracy, Spartanesque Rohan and Hobbit mercenaries who destroyed the egalitarian revolutionary Sauron who united the oppressed peoples of Middle-earth.
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