[HPforGrownups] Re: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly Slytherin

[Iggy McSnurd]

No: HPFGUIDX 91373

> Carol:
> How come no one except me wants it to be Theo Nott (weedy and stringy
> like a young Snape)--the poor kid's father is a wimpy excuse for a
> death Eater, but Theo is not a close friend of Draco and his thugs. I
> think it would be a real breakthrough if this quiet Slytherin boy who
> can see the Thestrals somehow communicates with Harry.
> 
> What have we seen of Blaise Zabini other than his being made a
> Slytherin by the Sorting Hat? But JKR has specifically mentioned
> Theodore Nott in OoP--*and* his father (who was in the graveyard in
> GoF and the DoM in OoP, making a singularly unimpressive, almost
> pitiable, showing in both cases. This man, like a much older Regulus
> Black, is in too deep and can't get out. So I hope the complex/good
> Slytherin is Theo, who somehow finds a way to rescue poor old dad.
> 
> Carol, who wonders if people like Blaise Zabini for his name


Iggy here:

Well, to be completely honest, I didn't even think of Theo Nott (partly
because I didn't remember him until you commented on him).  But, with
what you say, I do agree that Theo Nott *would* be the most likely
candidate (and a good one) for the role of Complex/Good!Slytherin.  (And
in his case, it might even be "Redeeming!Slytherin" in redeeming his
family's name at least a bit somehow.)

Iggy McSnurd