Zabini and Nott/was The Good, The Bad

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No: HPFGUIDX 91585

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Steve" <bboy_mn at y...> wrote:

> Conclusion, T. Knot and Blaise Zabini could both become good
> Slytherins, but my money is mostly on Blaise as being THE Good 
Slytherin. 


"K"

I would personally like to see more than one good Slytherin. If  
Zabini and Nott both end up on the good side that's fine with me. I 
do feel the Slytherin who can see the thestrals might possibly be one 
of the good. However, we don't know who he is.

~There were only two other people who seemed to be able to see them: 
a stringy Slytherin boy standing just behind Goyle was watching the 
horse eating with an expression of great distaste on his face, and 
Neville, whose eyes were following the swishing progress of the long 
black tail.
<snip>
Immensely pleased to feel that he was at last going to understand the 
mystery of these horses, Harry raised his hand. Hagrid nodded at him.

"Yeah...yeah, I knew you'd be able ter, Harry," he said 
seriously, "An' you too, Neville, eh? An'___"

"Excuse me," said Malfoy in a sneering voice, "but what exactly are 
we supposed to be seeing?
oop/ch 21/pg 445/us

We are introduced to this kid, given a short physical description,  
and he's named right alongside Harry and Neville. But we aren't told 
his name. Why? If Theodore Nott is the same boy who can see the 
thestrals, why not just say so? 

Theodore Nott has also been seen with Malfoy and his gang in the 
library.

~If anything more was needed to complete Harry's happiness, it was 
Malfoy, Crabbe, and Goyle's reactions. He saw them with their heads 
together later that afternoon in the library, together with a weedy-
looking boy Hermione whispered was called Theodore Nott. They looked 
around at Harry as he browsed the shelves for the book he needed on 
Partial Vanishment, and Goyle cracked his knuckles threateningly and 
Malfoy whispered something undoubtedly malevolent to Crabbe. Harry 
knew perfectly well why they were acting like this: He had named all 
of their fathers as Death Eaters.
oop/ch 26/pg 583/us

We didn't see a Zabini DE at the graveyard. That doesn't mean there 
wasn't one there as not all DE's were named. Yet we do see parents of 
other kids who attend Hogwarts being named. If Zabini's father and/or 
mother was a DE why not name them unless they are of some importance 
and we will see them later. Or unless one/both have been killed and 
that is why Blaise can see the thestrals. Of course it is possible 
Nott has also seen a death.

Some feel that Nott resembles Snape due to the following descriptions:

~...together with a weedy-looking boy Hermione whispered was called 
Theodore Nott. (weedy:  Of a scrawny build; spindly; gawky.)
oop/ch 26/pg 583/us

"Snape-the-teenager had a stringy, pallid look about him..." 
oop/ch 28/pg 640/us

But are the weedy-Nott and the stringy-Slytherin one and the same? 
Not necessarily. 

~There were only two other people who seemed to be able to see them: 
a stringy Slytherin boy...
oop/ch 21/pg 445/us

Here are two teenagers described as 'stringy'. Both in Slytherin. One 
is in the same year as Harry. The other, of course, is Snape in his 
youth. Twice JKR has used the word 'stringy' to describe a teenage 
boy in one book. Yet we don't know for sure who the stingy-thestral 
kid is. 

I guess I do find Blaise Zabini more interesting for a couple of 
reasons, one being the way he was sorted.

SORTING
The following are in the same year as Harry:
Millicent Bulstrode, Vincent Crabbe, Gregory Goyle, Draco Malfoy, 
Theodore Nott, Pansy Parkinson, and Blaise Zabini.

~He was so relieved to have been chosen and not put in Slytherin, he 
hardly noticed that he was getting the loudest cheer yet. 
<snip>
And now there were only three people left to be sorted.
<snip>
"Well done, Ron, excellent," said Percy Weasley pompously across 
Harry as "Zabini, Blaise," was made a Slytherin. Professor McGonagall 
rolled up her scroll and took the Sorting Hat away.
ps/ch 7/pg 91

See, no big event for Blasie. Only for the famous Harry Potter. All 
eyes are on Harry and during this time JKR slips in Blaise. And why 
should we bother to think twice about Blaise? He's just another kid 
being sorted. But this kid is at least named. We know he is there. 
And JKR doesn't just throw in names for nothing. So while the 
reader's attention is on the famous Potter, Blaise just takes his 
seat with the Slytherins. 

I just think there's more to Blaise than we know and I do believe 
it's possible he is the stringy-Slytherin.


"K"