Slytherin Stereotypes WAS Re: [HPforGrownups] Re: Dumbledore's awarding ...

[Tom Wall]

No: HPFGUIDX 57185

Yeah - Slytherins have feelings, too. ;-)

The stereotypes don't bother me so much because they exist, but 
because the author doesn't really try to balance them out or 
anything.

See Pansy Parksinson, after Draco gets injured by that great ugly 
brute Buckbeak.

"How is it, Draco?" simpered Pansy Parkinson. "Does it hurt much?"
(PoA, Ch.7)

She *simpered?* The Trio are always visiting each other in the 
hospital wing when one or the other is injured. I betcha the 
Slytherins think that they 'simper' about the same way the author 
portrays Pansy as 'simpering.' 

Of course, hard to tell if this is just to illustrate what HHR 
perceive, or if, Pansy was *actually* simpering, but anyways, you 
get my meaning. ;-)

-Tom