[HPforGrownups] Re: Punishing for sins of the father...

[jazmyn]

No: HPFGUIDX 68026



SnapesSlytherin at aol.com wrote:
> 
> Did I miss the chapter that said "All Slyths follow Draco"?  I must have...
> US Hardback GoF page 723:
> Dumbledore turned gravely to Harry and raised his goblet once more.  Nearly
> everyone in the Great Hall followed suit.  They murmured his name, as they had
> murmured Cedric's, and drank to him.  But through a gap in the standing
> figures, Harry saw that Malfoy, Crabbe, Goyle, and *many of the other Slytherins*
> had remained defiantly in their seats, their goblets untouched. Dumbledore, who
> after all possessed no magic eye, did not see them.  (Emphasis my own <end quote>
> See?  "Many of the Slyths" does not mean all of the Slyths.  There were some
> that stood for Harry.  Not all of them follow Draco.  They might even be the
> elusive Good!Slyths...I can't imagine the Bad!Slyths standing for Harry, can
> you?  It's totally understandable if Pansy tried to join and the DA said no. 
> But what about those who stood?
> 
>

I can imagine that Draco made life a living hell for those that stood 
for Harry.  We likely don't see the Good Slytherins because the bad ones 
would keep them inhibited.  In the scene with James and Snape, there 
were no Slytherins coming to Snape's aid. Unless Lily happened to be 
one, which is about as likely as Hagrid being Lupin's father.. Does this 
mean he was 'too good' to whomever their ringleader was at the time and 
an outcast from them?  Or just such a loner that he didn't have any 
friends at all? Maybe it was the next two years that the other Slyherins 
offered him 'protection' in exchange for something. Maybe teaching them 
Hexes?  He might have had so many outstanding O.W.L.s that he was used 
by the 'evil' Slytherins as a way of helping them improve their own 
grades or something?

Perhaps we don't see the good ones because they stay quiet and don't 
stick their necks out.  They just get through school quietly and don't 
make waves that would draw notice from thugs like Draco and his gang.

Jazmyn