OOP: All slytherins evil?

[Sara_ELL]

No: HPFGUIDX 64201

imo_star wrote:

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> Just finding it a bit frustrating and implausible that there seems 
>to be nothing but at best nasty, at worst evil Slytherins around. 
>They cant all be like that surely?  The DA was a great idea, 
uniting the houses as the sorting hat says they must, but once again 
no Slyterins, I really hope that we dont get to the end of book 7 
and theres never been a half decent Slytherin.
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Me:
It's impossible to keep up with the posts (and no-one's biting 
anyone's head off for asking about nasty Slytherins .. yet). I was 
also disappointed by what I felt to be caricatures, rather than 
fully (or semi-) fleshed Slytherin characters. I concede that 
children accept them a bit more or rather, that overt caricatures  
are acceptable in childrens literature and enjoyed by them (I write 
as someone who loved Roald Dahl's wonderful books as a child). I can 
see a definate change from PS to OOP, with all of the characters bar 
the Dursleys, maturing into somewhat more realistic personalities. 
To the Dursleys, I would still have to add the Slytherins and 
espcially the trio of Draco, Crabbe & Goyle - Draco was a more 
complex character on Hogwarts Express at the beginning of PS than at 
any stage thereafter. With the sorting hat's advice about the houses 
uniting and with the subsequent formation of the DA (wonderful, 
wonderful development), I also felt that it was really *too* 
predictable that NONE of the DA were from Slytherin (I concede that 
the Slytherins who would've wanted to join, may simply not have 
known of DA's existance).

Just my two knuts (with couple of sickes and an every-flavoured bean 
thrown in). . . 

Sara (who's still willing to sail on that old Draco-Hermione SHIP..)