[HPforGrownups] Sorting

[Caius Marcius]

No: HPFGUIDX 2451


----- Original Message -----
From: "Peg Kerr" <pkerr06 at attglobal.net>
To: <HPforGrownups at egroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, September 23, 2000 4:34 PM
Subject: Re: [HPforGrownups] Sorting



>
> I think it would be interesting to meet a Slytherin that you could count
on,
> utterly.  I just don't like the idea of all the Slytherins being nasty.
> Seems too simplistic, and I don't think Rowling's a simplistic writer.
And
> really, if all the Slytherins HAVE to be nasty and evil, would Dumbledore
> let the Slytherin house continue?  Would parents be willing to keep
sending
> their kids there? (Other than the Deatheaters, of course).
>
> Peg
> Who holds out hope for some nobility in the Slytherins, somewhere (even
> Draco).

I agree with you regarding Slytherins as a whole (see Dumbledore's praise of
the Slytherin character in HP-CS, p. 333), but IMHO Draco is, alas, a wholly
owned subsidiary of Voldemort, Inc. See p. 729 of HP-GF ("You picked the
wrong side, Potter!...I told you not to hang around with riffraff like this
[i.e., "mudbloods" like Hermione]....Too late now, Potter! They'll be the
first to go, now the Dark Lord's back! Mudbloods and Muggle-lovers first!
Well -second - Diggory was the f-"..

At this point several others who also doubt Draco's nobility intervene to
halt his tirade.

    - CMC