[HPforGrownups] Re: The Houses Mystery/ Speculation on Potters' Job

[Richelle Votaw]

No: HPFGUIDX 44480

> bboy_mn responds:

> We all exagerate when we are trying to emphasize a point, so I think
> Hagrid did just that, he overstated himself to emphasized that
> Slytherin house has turned out a vast majority of Dark Wizards. But I
> don't think it is a statement of absolute historical fact. Just a
> generalization to make a point.

The way I see it, Hagrid does exagerate a good bit.  For example, he said
Olivander's was "the only place fer wands."  Well, it's not, obviously,
definitely not the only place in the wizard world, and I personally don't
think the only place in London.  He just said it to emphasize that
Olivander's was, in his opinion, the best place.

I think the same is true for Hagrid's comment about dark wizards coming from
Slytherin.  And I personally think that all of the most prominent dark
wizards came from Slytherin.  Such as Voldemort, probably various Death
Eaters in Azkaban, and I think Sirius Black.  No, he wasn't a dark wizard
(probably), but everyone so easily thought he was.  It would make sense for
him to come from Slytherin, where they have a seemingly negative stereotype
anyway.

> --- Marcus  <prefectmarcus at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Things we know:
> > (2)They were living as muggles when Voldemort attacked.  (From the
> > scene in the movie JKR wrote.)

Andrea responded:

> Excuse me, but how does that scene tell us that they were living as
> Muggles?  It shows Voldie arriving at a dark house, Lily holding baby
> Harry, Lily getting blasted, and baby Harry gurgling at Voldie.  While
> nothing in there says that they *weren't* living as Muggles, there's
> certainly nothing that indicates they *were*.  We simply didn't see enough
> of their home or lifestyle to judge.

Well, I think we can safely say they were living *among* Muggles, thought
not necessarily *as* Muggles.  If we can count that scene as canon, since it
was written by JKR, the nursery had an owl mobile over the crib.  I don't
know any Muggles with owl mobiles.  I suppose you could explain it away as a
favorite animal or something, but it is a bit on the unusual side.  Hagrid
did say of Harry "I got him out all right before the Muggles started
swarmin' around."  Which implies that there were at least nearby Muggles
that happened
to notice that a house fell down.

Richelle
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