OOP: That Slytherin kid

[neith_seshat]

No: HPFGUIDX 65955

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "marinafrants" <rusalka at i...> 
wrote:
> I've been thinking about that Slytherin boy in Hagrid's class who 
> could see the thestrals, and I've decided I have high hopes for 
> him. (snip)
> It's not like we need a 
> nasty Slytherin thrown in at this late stage to balance out all the 
> sweet, fluffy-bunny Slytherins we've seen before.  Either the kid 
is 
> a totally irrelevant background detail (which isn't JKR's style), 
or 
> he's going to be developed in the future, and if he's going to be 
> developed, it's got to be into something we haven't seen before.  


Marina, I do agree with you here. When I read that chapter for the 
first time, I thought it could be that way. Now, I'm pretty sure of 
that, and I also dare to make a suggestion: could he be the 
misterious Blaise Zabini, whose name was mentioned at the first 
sorting? We have already heard about Nott, thus it may be the case. 
Moreover, I argued before that Blaise was the name of Merlin's mentor.

Any opinion on the matter?


Neith