OoP: More on the Slytherin "cariacture"

[darrin_burnett]

No: HPFGUIDX 64380


Joan: 
> We've only seen four Slytherins thus far: Draco Malfoy, Pansy 
> Parkinson, Crabbe, and Goyle.  Would you get a proper sense of 
> Gryffindor House if the only ones we'd met were Lavender Brown, 
> Parvati Patil, Seamus Finnegan, and, say, Dean Thomas?  Considering 
> the actions (and lack of) we've seen from those four, I highly 
> doubt it.  Declaring Slyth house completely rife with evil on the 
> basis of the four little evil brats we've been introduced to is 
> jumping to an extreme conclusion.
> 

We've seen, besides those four:

Millicent:  Bully and member of the Junior Inquisitor League.

Flint: Cheating Quidditch Player.

Rest of Slyth team: Cheating Quidditch Players.

Lucius and the rest of the DEs: former Slyths.

And again, if JKR wanted us to have a "good Slyth" right now, she'd have 
given us one.  (the closest we have is ambiguous!maybe!Slyth Snape.)

And, as has been pointed out, among the least complex, most 
straightfowardly evil characters in the book are Crabbe, Goyle, Draco and 
Pansy. 

I'm going on the evidence we have so far, not on what we hope the blank 
spots will eventually reveal. 

So, I'm thinking why there hasn't been a good Slyth kid yet, and I'm suggesting 
that maybe there is some indoctrination going on that Dumbledore, Harry and 
the rest of the good guys are going to have to break through.

Again, the Sorting Hat, containing the essence of Salazar, picked Draco as a 
Slyth before the hat even settled on his head. That tells me Salazar thought 
Draco an ideal Slyth.

And that says all kinds of lousy things about Slytherin.

Darrin