Are all Slytherins rotten to the bone? e tc.

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No: HPFGUIDX 8472

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Amy Z" <aiz24 at h...> wrote:
> 
> Kelley wrote:
> > >.  Plus, this could be the set-up for the redemption of the 
Dursleys...
> 
> Great title for Book 7:  Harry Potter and the Redemption of the
> Dursleys!
> 
> Amy

Ha!  Well, I'd certainly be pleased to contribute that...

Heidi wrote:
> 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.<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

Yeah, but the tattling comes after the first part, though.  He's the 
little dipwad that challenged Harry to the 'fake' duel, so he'd be 
out of bed, and breaking rules in the first place--he set him up.  
Draco came off as a jerk right from the start to me.  The first time 
Harry meets him at Madame Malkin's, he's making smug comments about 
being in Slyth, playing Quid, getting his dad to buy him a broom (he 
actually says 'bully my father into buying me a broom'--doesn't it 
seem ludicrous to imagine Draco 'bullying' Luicus into anything?); 
rude, condescending remarks about Hagrid, muggle-borns, and half-
bloods.  I do like Draco as a character, esp. in fics, but in canon 
he's quite a little turkey-weiner, IMO.  That ~was~ all in SS/PS 
wasn't it?  I haven't cracked the books in a while, guess I better 
get after it...

> 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?

I'd love to meet these Slyths, too.  It doesn't seem too likely that 
we'll get to meet any more of the kids in any house in too much 
detail, though.  JKR has a lot of story to pack into the next three 
books, and I would guess if a character isn't going to be intrinsic 
to the story in some way, she probably won't bother.  I was hoping 
that she would continue her trend of making each book longer than the 
one before, too bad she isn't.  She could change her mind, since 
she's only been writing OoP for a short while, now; guess there is a 
little hope...

Kelley

Kelley