The Heir

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 46002

 The Pip!Squeak wrote:

Slytherin has been part of Hogwarts for 1000 years. JKR 
appears to be implying that the Slytherins should be handled by 
inclusion, not exclusion.

<snip>
Dumbledore is trying to do this [Snape]. But he doesn't always 
get 
it right [The Dissing the Slytherins scene where he springs the 
Gryffindor victory on them at the Leaving Feast]. <<

Um, are you saying that if some other House had been leading, 
Dumbledore would have curbed his taste for the dramatic? 
Because otherwise, I don't see how Dumbledore was being 
exclusionist. To be inclusive, Dumbledore has to treat the 
Slytherins as if they were just as capable of bearing the 
reversals of fortune  as anyone else. 

Dumbledore does not treat  Snape or the Slytherins as though 
their capacity to make moral judgments is impaired.   They are, 
just as Harry is, considered able at any moment to decide to 
work for the good or to abrogate that decision as Pettigrew did.  

I don't think Harry can understand Slytherins better than 
Dumbledore. I think what Harry will be able to do that 
Dumbledore cannot is  bring the understanding he has gained 
in the magical world back to the Muggle world, like Mowgli at the 
end of the Jungle Books. 

I think we will understand in the end that the magical powers of 
the wizards  are not really so wonderful after all. There is a hint
of this in Molly's reaction to the magically stretched Anglia...what 
she thought was marvelous because Muggles had (supposedly) 
done it, she would have taken for granted if she had known it 
was magic.

What is truly miraculous,  the power of  love, is present in both 
magical and Muggle worlds. It is hidden from Harry now, just as 
the magical world is hidden from us, but I don't think it will 
always be.

Pippin