Not Slytherin, not Slytherin

[derannimer <susannahlm@yahoo.com>]

No: HPFGUIDX 51316

Oh dear.

I don't think I've explained myself properly. 

Because Dicentra wrote: 

>We don't know for sure that the bigotry is confined to House 
>Slytherin, nor do we know for sure that all Slytherins are bigots. 
>They are most certainly all pure-blood, but so are the Weasleys, and 
>they aren't bigots. Again, we don't know how bad all Slytherins are. 
>Snape, the head of House Slytherin, is nasty but is turning out to 
>be a rather moral person. And we have the example of Gryffindor (we 
>think) Peter Pettigrew, who is single-handedly responsible both for 
>the murder of Harry's parents and for Voldemort's return (heh, pun 
>intended). 

And this is actually something I agree with.

See, in your original post, Dicentra, I got the distinct impression 
that *you* thought that all the Slyths were bad. You wrote: 

>JKR hasn't marked the Slyths as bad just to prop up a shallow 
>dualism--she's setting up the central conflict of the series: Muggle-
>lovers vs. Muggle-haters. Inclusion vs. Elitism. Acceptance vs. 
>Genocide. Love vs. Bigotry.

Which gave me the idea that you thought all Slyths were bad. 

I wrote my post in reaction to that; I meant to say that *if* that 
turns out to be true, and all the Slyths are Bad and all the Bad are 
Slyths, then I will find it exceedingly disappointing and rather 
contrived. 

That isn't what I believe, and heaven knows it's not what I hope. 

But I thought that *you* believed it, and that you had no problem 
with it. 

>It will be interesting to see to what degree the house rivalries 
>diverge from the real-world conflict in the next three books, if at 
>all.

>--Dicentra, who sincerely hopes they will



Derannimer (who hopes so too)