[HPforGrownups] Re: Snape and Redemption

[Kathryn Cawte]

No: HPFGUIDX 76059

 digger said
or Lucius Malfoy has 
*other plans* and is a bit of a traitor on the quiet himself.
Not that I suspect LM of being *good*, you understand. I just suspect he 
may have ideas of understudying Voldemort for the purpose of usurping 
the Dark Lord postion in the future.
 
Me -

Oh yeah - that seems right to me. I don't think you can put Lucius in a box
as being on 'their' side or 'our' side. I think the only person whose side
Lucius Malfoy is on is Lucius Malfoy - after all Slytherins are ambitious
and scheming, it's the Hufflepuffs who are loyal. I think he's solidly
behind whichever side wins, and if he himself is the one doing the winning,
well so much the better.

Which brings me to something else - people keep saying that maybe Peter wasn
t a Gryffindor because he doesn't fit the description. Sure he does. If it
was a one time only betrayal then there's nothing about that that is brave
(which is the defining characteristic of Gryffindors), but it wasn't. He
spied on them for an entire year - which takes a lot of nerve. Gryffindors
don't have to be honourable, loyal and true - just brave.

hmmm - should I worry I spend too much time talking HP since my spellchecker
now recognizes all the houses and the major characters without a problem,
but still tries to spell honourable like an American.

K