The Good Slytherin.

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 84929

Tonks said: 
<snip>
> I think to prove this point to the readers, Harry will encounter the
'Good 
> Slytherin' as you noted. It needs to be proven. JKR is not as black
and white as 
> Good House/Bad House. So far, we have only met baddie Slytherins.
Yet, we 
> have really only met four distinctly in Harry's year- I think-
Malfoy, Crabbe, 
> Goyle, and Pansy Parkinson. In Harry's year, alone, that is only
four of ten. ( 
> Ten being what we know of ) Somewhere in there, there must be
someone who is 
> not evil....
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I think it's worth noting that when Harry lands safely after riding
Buckbeak in Hagrid's combined Gryffindor/Slytherin CoMC class,
"everyone except Malfoy, Crabbe, and Goyle cheered" (PoA 117, Am.
ed.). That means all the Slytherins except those three, even Pansy
Parkinson, cheered for Harry. Also, as I noted earlier, everyone in
Hogwarts, even the three bad boys, raised their glasses in a toast to
the indisputably good Cedric Diggory: "They did it, all of them; the
benches scraped as everyone in the Hall stood, and raised their
goblets, and echoed in one loud, low, rumbling voice, 'Cedric
Diggory.'" As I read these passages, there is hope for some semblance
of unity and for more than one good Slytherin (in addition to Snape).

Carol