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

[heidi]

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ABoyko at starchoice.com wrote:

>         I think Harry is biased against the Syltherins because they pick on
> him, make fun of him at every opportunity (thank you, Rita Skeeter), and
> wear "Harry Potter Stinks" badges. He was cautious about the Slytherins, and
> didn't want to be in their house, because of their reputation. The current
> students haven't done much to improve that.

By book 4, sure, but that's after 3 years of history between them - in book 1,
the worst thing Draco does is inform on them when they actually are breaking a
bunch of school rules (although after that there's a little Making Fun Of Harry
by Slytherins but given that noone in Gryffendor is speaking to him either, I
can't see how that's such a *bad* thing.
A whole bunch of Slytherins stood up to (a) toast him at the farewell dinner in
Book 4, and (b) toasted cedric. Are we ever going to meet any of those "not
necessarily evil" slytherins?