OoP: the DA (was:Dd's treatment to Harry)

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No: HPFGUIDX 68636

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "darrin_burnett" 
<bard7696 at a...> wrote:
> I'm all for the DA including a willing Slyth who isn't going to 
> betray them, but I wouldn't blame the DA one bit if they were 
> suspicious.
> 
> It's not bias to think that someone from a faction that has, for 
the 
> most part, supported V-Mort (you know, the guy they are LEARNING 
> defense spells to maybe someday fight?) might have an ulterior 
motive.

Where do you get that Slytherin is a 'faction' that has for the most 
part supported Voldemort?


> 
> Any Slyth would have to prove his or her loyalty. 

Loyalty to whom?  Prove how??


> Perhaps that is 
> unfair, but that's part of what those kids have to deal with, 
since 
> many of their fathers have been V-Mort's lapdogs.

Many of whose fathers?  Yes, several of the Slytherins in Harry's 
year have fathers who are named DEs, but what about all the other 
Slytherins?

> 
> All I know is that Harry would be a moron to just blindly accept a 
> Slyth. He already had a Ravenclaw betray him.

But what would Harry have to lose by allowing Slytherins into the 
group?  With DU gone, how can any LV supporters in the school betray 
him?  And what about all the DEs whose House allegiance we don't 
know about?  Despite what Hagrid told Harry, there could have been 
lots of Voldemort supporters from other Houses.  Harry's own parents 
might have been.  I don't believe that personally, but you know what 
I mean?  There is no canon evidence that the Slytherins are a bloc 
of LV supporters, and there is also no evidence that LV didn't have 
lots of support from wizards and witches in other Houses.

MC


> 
> Darrin