Simple spell origin, Krum, Slytherins, Prefects

[Anne <urbana@charter.net>]

No: HPFGUIDX 48862

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, kewiromeo at a... wrote:
> And third on my list is belief that only Slytherin witches and 
wizards went 
> bad. Everyone knows that there wasn't a witch or wizard that went 
bad that 
> wasn't from Slytherin. This would mean that Wormtail had been from 
Slytherin 
> or a turncoat against the Gryffindor friends. If not, this would 
mean that 
> Remus, James, and Sirius were friends with a Slytherin. So you 
can't rule out 
> only Slytherins as being bad. 
> 

It was Ron who said, "Everyone knows that there wasn't a witch or 
wizard that went bad that wasn't from Slytherin."  There are some 
double negatives piled up in this sentence (which I hope comes from 
Ron being 11 years old, since I know JKR elucidates things much 
better than this) but that certainly does sound like "every witch or 
wizard who went bad *was* from Slytherin." However, remember that at 
the time Ron said this, NO ONE in the Wizarding World knew that Peter 
Pettigrew had actually faked his own death and framed Sirius Black 
for the murder of the group of Muggles. The mass-murder of the 
Muggles and Pettigrew's "death" were widely known in the WW, and as 
far as Ron knew, Scabbers was really a rat, not Peter Pettigrew, 
animagus, in rat form. So as far as everyone knew *at that point* 
(September 1, 1991 if you follow the HP timeline), no wizards or 
witches from any houses other than Slyterin had gone bad. Does this 
make sense? I hope so. As far as I can see, there's no real evidence 
in canon (at least through GoF) that Peter was in Slytherin, so he 
actually could have been the first Gryffindor (if he was a 
Gryffindor) to "go bad".

Anne U
(who would say "That's my story and I'm sticking to it"... except 
that Steve already says that;-)