Good Slytherin (Was: Re: Thestrals and Slytherins)

[greatelderone]

No: HPFGUIDX 71264

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "darrin_burnett" 
<bard7696 at a...> wrote:
> 
> Were Salazar really off his rocker into Mad Ethnic-Cleanser Land, I 
don't see 
> the other houses putting up with his students for 1,000 years.

Well he did help found Hogwarts didn't he? So maybe the various 
headmasters and headmistresses put up with them because of the fact 
that he was part of the hogwarts four and also because Slytherin 
turned out a few headmasters like Phineas.

> Now, I do still think that Slytherin, post-Riddle, has been in a 
downward evil 
> spiral.  The absence of the elusive "Good Slyth" has become less of 
a glaring 
> omission and more of a plot question to be answered, in my mind.

What about Phineas? Despite being dead and a portrait he was okay and 
did show concern for Sirius and everything.

> Salazar leaving it behind was a reckless act. Perhaps he thought he 
would 
> one day get back there to claim it and never got round to it.

Didn't Riddle himself say that Slytherin left it there so that his 
heir could finish his noble work?