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[Amanda Lewanski]

No: HPFGUIDX 2004

Christina Gross wrote:

> Speaking of Percy, he would have made a good example for a non-evil
> Slytherin. Is anybody else getting tired of their portrayal? There
> must be some decent people in the house.

I'm sure there are, but they're probably not as fun to read about. Draco is
the anti-Harry, and he's pretty dedicatedly nasty, and he and his clique are
the ones we confront the most. But remember, the mention that Draco and many
Slytherins declined to rise and toast Harry at the end of book 4 is an
indirect means of sayting the rest of them *did.* Honor and ambition can
coexist.

Repeatedly portraying Slytherins as unquestionedly nasty is the sort of
lulling thing that authors set up so they can "gotcha" you later. I'm
expecting some redeeming qualities or characters to appear. Or maybe not.
Its original intended audience *was* children/young adults, and they like
some things to be black/white.

--Amanda