The Good Slytherin

[justcarol67]

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Brooke wrote:
> I agree with many of the other posts replying to this subject. It is 
> about time that we were introduced to a Slytherin with some moral 
> fiber. Certainly they can't all be like Malfoy & his disciples.  I 
> thought that perhaps it was the boy Harry noticed in OoP who had also 
> seen a thestral.  
> 
> When Hagrid took his class to the Forbidden Forest to introduce them 
> to thestrals, Harry, Luna, and one other boy who Harry thought was a 
> Slytherin held up their hands when Hagrid asked who could see them.
> 
> I realize that the fact that this kid can see a thestral gives us no 
> indication that he's a "good" slytherin, but I remember getting the 
> distinct feeling when I first read that part, that JKR had dropped a 
> very subtle clue by including that seemingly dismissable incident. 
> 
> Any thoughts?

I had the same thought. I thought the boy was Theodore Nott, whom I
mentioned before as the son of the injured Death Eater that Lucius
Malfoy told the others to leave behind in the DoM, but I can't find
the thestral reference. Anybody?

Carol