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

[darrin_burnett]

No: HPFGUIDX 63387


Errol:

 It would have 
> been too huge a risk for both the Slytherin and for the DA. On the 
> other hand, I wonder how Harry would have reacted if a Slytherin 
> *had* shown up in his class. How about the others? Would they have 
> welcomed him/her? Or would they have ridiculed him (I can so see 
Fred 
> and George doing this). Or they could accept the Slytherin only to 
> show biased treatment – if not directly from Harry or Hermione,
> most 
> probably from the others. Harry would have been hard pressed to 
keep 
> discipline in his class. Darn, I really wish Rowling had dealt with 
> this angle. Maybe in the next book

> 

Me:

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.

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

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

Darrin