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

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No: HPFGUIDX 57391

In a message dated 5/6/03 11:23:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time, bard7696 at aol.com 
writes:

> Funny, I didn't see an example of a good Slytherin deed in that. 
> 
> Just a justification that because the Headmaster actually decided 
> that bravery, honor, intelligence and self-sacrifice (Please, tell me 
> that Draco would have sacrificed himself on the chess board for 
> anyone -- I had a tooth pulled today and I need a laugh) was worth 
> something more than skulking about, using trickery to cost another 
> house points, it's OK to be nasty.


Oh ... I see what you thought I meant.  Okay, I didn't mean that there was a 
good Slytherin deed in that scene, I merely meant that the open endorsement 
of Gryffindor could have discouraged any good Slytherins from making 
themselves known.  Even I know that there is no good Slytherin deed in the 
banquet at the end of PS.  Dumbledore certainly could have given the points 
to HRH and Neville before the Great Hall was all decked out in Slyth colors.  
That's a *smidgen* cruel.  To let the Slytherins think that they have won and 
then suddenly take it away - for ... well, I won't get into what I think 
about rule breaking - even if it brings the results that the Trio's rule 
breaking brings.

~*~*~Oryomai~*~*~

"Tell someone you're the Metatron and they stare at you blankly.  Mention 
something out of a Charlton Heston movie and suddenly everybody's a theology 
scholar!"
                              - Metatron (Alan Rickman) in Dogma


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