First meetings; - Good Slytherin in DA Club

[kiricat2001]

No: HPFGUIDX 71518

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Steve" <bboy_mn at y...> wrote:
> 
> bboy_mn:
> 
> Just going the throw in a couple cents worth on the subject in 
general.
> 
> First, Harry never said, 'I want Gryffindor', he said, 'not
> Slytherin'. He would have taken any house, but he preferred not to 
be
> a Slytherin.
> 
> 
> Speaking of Slytherin...
> 
> On to a new subject, I can't help wondering if the Black house, and
> Black's ancestors aren't a setup for us and Harry to find out that
> Sirius was a Slytherin. We have this whole theme of uniting the 
houses
> against outside forces, and we have Harry and Ron's implication that
> they can't see themselves getting friendly with Slytherins, but if
> Harry found out that his Dad's best friend and his own Godfather 
was a
> Slytherin, that might make him pause and think.

The only way I think Slytherin!Sirius works is if he and James were 
good friends before they entered Hogwarts.  (Yes, I'm one of those 
who buys the idea that James was a Gryff.)  Otherwise, I can't see 
them suddenly striking up a great friendship once they got to 
Hogwarts if they were in different houses. And there's still that 
pesky werewolf situation, where the other 3 figured out Remus' secret 
early on in school. I can't believe that Sirius would necessarily 
notice Remus' absences if they were in different houses, unless his 
good buddy James clued him in.

This idea of Sirius as a Slyth, while MWP were Gryffs could also work 
in the context of Sirius' problems with his family, if his parents 
realized that he was ignoring his own housemates, or the Slytherin 
emphasis on purity of blood in favor of hanging out with James.


> I also wonder if the DA Club isn't where this 'good Slytherin' theme
> will play out. Let's assume they are allowed to continue the club.
> They have already opened it up to members of Gryffindor, Ravenclaw 
and
> Hufflepuff. If it is an approved school club, then I assume it has 
to
> be a Gryffindor club or an all-school club, but not a 3 out of 4 
club.
> Harry would have to make a decision; either the club ends, the club
> goes underground again, it's limited to his own house, or it's open 
to
> the whole school.

And, with Ddore back, surely it wouldn't have to go underground.  I 
wonder, though, what with Dumbledore telling Harry he wasn't made a 
prefect because he had a whole lot of other stuff to worry about, if 
the time and effort involved for Harry to keep the DA going would end 
up being too much extra work.  

> First, I don't think all students are interested in joining, but I
> think a lot of them would. As a side note, I also think there will 
be
> a staff supervisor for the club, but I'm not sure who (please, not
> Snape). I think in the end, Harry will accept Slytherin as long as
> they accept that he is running the show, and as long as they are
> willing to obey the rules. Rules like fair dueling.

Or someone could come in from the outside to be the adult supervisor. 
Maybe a non-professorial member of the OoP, assuming this person's 
free time wasn't involved in another job.  Someone like Remus Lupin.  
If the DA was run off school grounds, is not part of the curriculum, 
and is voluntary, not school-sanctioned activity (althought that 
wouldn't necessarily mean it wasn't Dumbledore-sanctioned), then I 
wonder if there would be any legal ramifications to Remus being 
involved.

Of course, there probably are a fistful of regulations that would 
make it illegal for a werewolf to hold such a position, I, for one, 
would love to see Remus doing something like that.

>Marianne