[HPforGrownups] RE: Are all Slytherins rotten to the bone? e tc.

[Meredith Wilson]

No: HPFGUIDX 8418

Heidi said:

** information and knowing the whole picture. Compare
** this to Harry determining at the first dinner in Book
** 1 that the Slytherins look like an unplesant lot.
** While we know more about individual slytherins in
** harry's year than we do about, say Ravenclaws (only
** one - Padma - has been mentioned by name) 

And Cho...

** we don't
** know anything from any perspective other than Harry's,
** and he is, admittedly, biased against Slytherins,
** given that TWELVE PLUS YEARS AGO, a lot of death
** eaters were formerly of Slytherin House - which may
** have some bearing on the current house given that many
** of the death eaters have kids in that house (although
** I'm looking for little Jenny McNair to be sorted into
** Ravenclaw next year...) but doesn't necessarily mean
** that those students will have to walk down the Path of
** Evil.
** 

Just to add to this, the book does say that most (all?) of the greatest dark
wizards have come from Slytherin, not that most/all Slytherins become dark
wizards. 

Mer