Slytherins, and Draco's Date

[Jennifer Boggess Ramon]

No: HPFGUIDX 36429

At 4:15 AM +0000 3/13/02, tanie_05 wrote:
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>Slytherins:
>Quick question: Are all Slytherins truly "evil"?

I certainly don't think so.

Here's a quote written at the age of fourteen (which explains the 
run-on) by a person of, if not pure blood, at least blue-blood:

"Those who are ambitious and make a place and a name in the great 
world for themselves are nearly always despised and laughed at by 
lesser souls who could not do as well and all they do for the good of 
men is construed into wrong, and yet they do the good and they leave 
their mark upon the ages and if they had no ambition would they ever 
have made a mark?"

A Slytherin statement if ever I saw one.  Salazar would be proud. 
Any doubt ehere thid person would be sorted?

Guess who wrote the quote?

<pause for thinking>

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Time's up!

Eleanor Roosevelt.

Hardly evil, at least to my way of thinking.

>But back to my point,
>can kind people be placed in Slytherin?

As long as they're ambitious, and (more to the point) their ambition 
outweighs their scholarship, loyalty and hard work, and bravery, then 
the Sorting Hat's song tells us that's where he'd put them.  No 
cruelty required.  (Whether the Hat also considers whether the person 
is Muggle-born is unknown - if it does, it fails to mention it in 
either of the songs we hear.)



At 9:48 PM +0000 3/12/02, Mr_Boregard wrote:
>In GoF, Malfoy escorts Pansy Parkinson to the Yule Ball. You would
>think that a person of such lofty self worth would escort someone
>other than the hard faced Pansy. Are there any girls in the Slytherin
>house worthy of Malfoy's ideals or did he limit himself to the stock
>of Slytherin girls suitable to his personality?

At least one Slytherin seems to show compassion fairly regularly, at 
least for her fellow Slytherins, and Draco in particular - Pansy 
Parkinson.  The most obvious case is in PoA 6, when Pansy is in tears 
after Draco gets gashed by Buckbeak and is the only person other than 
Hagrid to go to the infirmary with him.  She continues to dote on him 
throughout his injury.

After all that, Draco could be pretty sure that if he asked her, she 
wouldn't say no.  She's a fellow Slytherin, she's presumably from a 
good family, and the only other Slytherin girl in her year we have a 
physical description for (as far as I can find), Millicent Bulstrode, 
is even less pretty.  Asking someone from another house would be 
risky, so barring there being a pretty Durmstrang girl, she's a 
decent enough catch for something like the Yule Ball.

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  - Boggles, aka J. C. B. Ramon			boggles at earthlink.net
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