Slytherin and Death eaters

[Persephone]

No: HPFGUIDX 13867

MMMfanfic at hotmail.com wrote:

> I am kind of perplexed by the link between the Slytherin House and
> the Death Eaters.  Is Slytherin House an in-house-training-camp for
> future Death Eaters?  Can you imagine what the graduation ceremony
> would be like:
>
> Rosier: let's join the dark Lord.
> Wilkens: And torture some Muggles.
> The Lestranges: And don't forget the Mudblood.
>

I personally think that she makes all the Slytherins look bad in the
books.  They all seam like thugs and evil bastards, and the Griffandors,
who seam to do a lot of rule breaking and cause just as much trouble,
get made out to be the 'good guys'.  I mean just because the majority of
them don't really like the muggleborn students, doesn't mean they all
want to go and torture them.  Also, it's strange that 'all' Death
Eaters, 'cept wormtail, are Slytherins.  That seams improbable that they
are all Slytherins.

> It would be strange if the entire year of Slytherins all become Death
> Eaters. (which seems to be the case with Snape's year, as Sirius has
> implied)  That, seriously, would make one doubt the value of a
> Hogwarts education.  I can understand how two or three may become DE
> but the 'entire gang'?  Even if we take the 'bad seeds' approach
> (i.e. all Slytherins are destined to become Dark Witches and Wizards,
> which even a 12 year-old can't believe.), it's just extreme to think
> that DE=Slytherin.  (I look forward to a non-Slytherin DE, someone
> other than that pathetic rat, Wormtail, who show us, so far, no trait
> of a Gryffindor.)

Well, if all Death Eaters were Slytherins, that doesn't necessarily mean
that all Slytherins are Death Eaters.  (Why does that sound like
geometry class?)   It does seam rather stupid that she made all Death
Eaters Slytherins,  and  an entire class became Death Eater?  That is
even more improbable.  I personally don't see the Slytherins as 'bad'.
Draco is pretty much all talk, his flunkies are the stereotypical goons,
but none of them are really evil.  Were they all really truly evil in
the past?  It confuses me somewhat.

Personally, if I was in any house it would be Slytherin.  And although
I'm not really a 'good' person, trust me on that,  I wouldn't exactly
call myself evil (Although there are people I know who would).  I think
that the Griffandors are made out to be the brave heroes in the book and
the Slytherins are the evil bad guys.  This in its self seams wrong
because most of the traits of the Griffandors are rather impulsive, they
tend to do things without thinking, but because they are brave, they're
good.  And the Slytherins are more ambitious and cunning, which seams to
be a bad trait.

Is anyone as confused as I am now?  Well that was my twisted logic in
work, maybe I should just stick to lurking, it's easier on everyone
else's sanity that way.   btw I made a list for discussing the Slytherin
issues, if you want to talk about it, join us, if not, just ignore me.


-Kate,  join SlytherinsML: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SlytherinsML

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