The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly Slytherin

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 91609

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "potioncat" <willsonkmom at m...>
wrote:
> 
> > bboy_mn wrote:
> > 
> > Maybe THE Good Slytherin is being taken a little too literally. 
> > 
> > Here is my idea of how the houses will unite and how we will find 
> > the Good Slytherin.

 
> Potioncat:
>
> I hope it isn't bad form to ask a question like this, Where did the 
> idea of a "good Slytherin" come from?  I know this line of posts 
> evolved from one about things we'd like to see or hate to see in the 
> next books.  But aside from our own interests in seeing good 
> Slytherin(s) is there any canon or interiviews to suggest it?
> 
> Potioncat (who hopes so!)

bboy_mn:

Here are some references to previous discussions about 'The Good
Slytherin'. Essentially, many of us can't believe that all Slytherins
are bad. Certainly JKR has lead us through a story that tries to give
that impression, but how many Slytherins do we actually know? We know
only a very small number of them, the ones that we do know are the
ones that show up very brightly on Harry's radar screen because he has
some negative interaction with them. 

But let's face it, there is a Slytherin in his Care of Magical
Creatures class that Harry has been in school with for five years, and
Harry doesn't know his name; he's the boy who saw the Thestral. If
Harry was having some kind of interaction with this guy, especially
some kind of negative interaction, Harry would definitely know who he
was. However, if this Slytherin was minding his own business and
keeping his head down, then it quite possible Harry would not know
him. Harry is not a real out-going socialble guy; he keeps to himself
and his closest friends, and rarely strays beyond.

Plus, we have this new concept introduced by the Sorting Hat of the
houses standing united, that can only happen if we find a few good
Slytherins. I have to believe that not all Slytherins are like Draco.
I have to believe, and I believe reasonably so, that many of them are
just plain ordinary kids going to school and trying their best, who
just happened to have been sorted into Slytherin.

Extending that a bit farther, and some of use believe within the
context of uniting the houses, we won't just see a few OK Slytherins,
but we will met a few outstanding Slytherins. These one or more
outstanding Slytherin, we refer to as 'The Good Slytherin'.

For details, see my published works-

Date:  Fri Nov 14, 2003  1:43 am
Subject:  Re: The Good Slytherin - Stringy & Weedy
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/84984

Date:  Thu Nov 13, 2003  10:58 pm
Subject:  Re: The Good Slytherin
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/84978

Date:  Thu Nov 13, 2003  1:22 am
Subject:  What the Sorting Hat REALLY Said, and The Good Slytherin.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/84899

Date:  Fri Jul 18, 2003  4:06 pm
Subject:  Re: First meetings; - Good Slytherin in DA Club
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/71474

Date:  Wed Jul 16, 2003  10:27 pm
Subject:  Thestrals and Slytherins
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/71039

Most, of these are my posts, but the will take you into the middle of
long discussions of the subject; just move up and down the thread to
read what other people said.

Here is one last link just for fun. It's off this topic, but it makes
me laugh everytime I think about it.

Date:  Fri Jul 11, 2003  6:48 pm
Subject:  Brit-Speak: Drop-Kicking the Students
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/69555

Just a few thoughts.

bboy_mn