Sirius's Family Good Slyths?

[kiricat2001]

No: HPFGUIDX 69658

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, SnapesSlytherin at a... wrote:
> In a message dated 7/11/03 7:03:05 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
bard7696 at a... 
> writes:
> > Now this is an interesting argument. Does Sirius' family, because 
they 
> > weren't 
> > prepared to go as far as Voldemort did, qualify as good Slyths?
> > I guess it depends, for me that is, on what they did exactly. Did 
they 
> > reject V-
> > Mort entirely? Or did they just kind of skulk off, waiting to see 
who the 
> > victor 
> > would be? 
> > Did they actively oppose him? As I've said, neutrality when evil 
is running 
> > rampant is allowing evil to thrive.
> 
> I guess whether Sirius's family were good Slyths or not depends on 
your 
> definition of good.  Do you think that merely opposing what V wants 
to do makes you 
> good, or does the person/group have to actively oppose him?  Since 
you 
> definition is the latter, I would say: perhaps.  When Regulus left, 
was that 
> actively opposing him?  IMO, asking to leave a group like the DEs 
is *almost* 
> actively opposing, simply because of the nature of the group.  

True, but this is speculating about Regulus, not the Black family as 
a whole.  They may very well have supported everything Voldemort 
professed to believe in.  And, judging from the shrieking banshee 
that is Mrs. Black, Voldemort's belief in the inherent superiority of 
purebloods is stil acceptable.  Sirius tells us that his family 
agreed with Voldemort in principle, but that his methods were not 
entirely acceptable to them.  That begs the question that had not the 
favorite son been killed off by the DEs, would the Blacks attitude 
have changed?  Or was is Regulus' death that made them questions 
Vmort's methods?

There's a possibility 
> that when Regulus left, he was planning to go to the MoM and tell 
them 
> everything about the DEs.  Did V kill Regulus because of plans to 
reveal DE secrets, 
> or is it merely because "when you're a DE, you're a DE all the way, 
from your 
> very first AK, to your last dying day"? 

We need more information.

  Or Sirius's Good!Slyth family could just be us Slyth fans 
desperately 
> grasping at straws trying to find good!slyth in the series (it's 
like trying to 
> find a virgin at the post-prom Deep Creek party)!

Read above re: Mrs. Black.  She still seems to have the attitude that 
purebloods are the only way to go, so, no, it doesn't strike me that 
the Blacks were any great shakes in the humanity department.  

Marianne