[HPforGrownups] Re: Why DD lets Snape be [an insufferable git] :-)

[Kathryn Cawte]

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Anja said -
Hagrid once says that all the students that became DEs came from 
Slytherin. This seems to be true , although now we know that people 
from other houses can be evil , too (--> Pettigrew). 

Now me -

Actually what he said was "there's not a wizard that went bad that didn't
come from Slytherin" which is clearly rubbish. When he said it he knew that
Sirius had betrayed the Potters (even though it later turned out that he
didn't) so he's ignoring the facts there to spout rubbish about a House that
he has good reasdon to dislike and wants Harry to dislike. Harry dislikes
Slytherins to start with because he;s been told to. Then Draco manages to
say exactly the wrong thing to him while trying to be friendly, twice - this
backs up his opinions. 

Of the DEs we meet I *think( the only one who's house we can be certain of
is Lucius (although I admit it's likely that the others whose names we know
were Slytherins), but he must have had support from more than just the
people who were or should have been there at the end of GoF or otherwise I
can't see people considering him  a serious threat. If all of his support
came from Slytherin as Hagrid and Ron seem to be telling us then 3/4 of the
WW wouldn't have been supporting him. So either Slytherins are naturally
more powerful (which I doubt) or other wizards agreed with him too.

K