Who is berk and Slytherin reputation

[Amey Chinchorkar]

No: HPFGUIDX 105741

> >> Siriusly Snapey Susan
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Amey:
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>> SSSusan:
>> That is *NOT* my quote, above your response--I'd just like to 
>> clarify that.  

Amey:
Really sorry to mis-quote you, and also sorry to the other person whose words I put into your mouth (er... your quill.. er...your keyboeard...):D. I was just having a play of words on that *Good DE* part, and I think I mis-copied some part of the mail.

>> Adan:
>>  have a hard time picturing Lucius sitting on his bed scribbling 
>> away in the diary.  Just not a very manly thing.  I've always thought 
>> diaries were rather a "girly" thing, and therefore see how giving the 
>> diary specifically to Ginny could have been the plan because there 
>> was a chance that she would use it.  Give it to Ron and I wonder if 
>> it'd even have made it to Hogwarts.  I see it thrown in the back of 
>> his closet.
 
Amey:
Yes, sure. Remember what Ron says anout the diary? "Tom got a diary for christmas and couldn't bother writing it" (Sorry, not exact quote). This shows a typical boy's POV towards a diary. I am sure TR wouldn't have bothered writing a diary had it not been the way to instruct his succcessor.


>> Del, who wonders why it took so long for the Hat to sort Neville.

Amey:
Sorting hat to Neville:
"Let's see. What have we here? You are not exceptionally bright (Ravenclaw out). Wouldn't do anything to gain what you want, zero cunning (Slytherin out). Courage I see some, hidden somewhere deep down. Plenty of Loyalty too... I think its Hufflepuff for you... not Hufflepuff you say, ok then it better be Gryffindor" ;D

>> Del replies :
>> In my book, a fair duel is not a duel where 2 people take turn
>> attacking a third one. Even if James and Sirius never attacked at the
>> same time, they still forced Snape to keep an eye on both of them at
>> the same time, to split his attention between the two of them, and to
>> guess who was going to attack next. I call that 2-on-1 just like I
>> call Malfoy attacking Harry with the help of Crabbe and Goyle 3-on-1.
>> If what James and Sirius did is OK, then Draco and his buddies don't
>> do anything wrong either.'

Amey:
But with Crabbe and Goyle, you have to keep an eye on their fists, not their wands, which makes it a different proposition. And also, they tend to attack together, it's not like Draco puts a spell and C&G wait on the lines. Draco doesn't have that daring. :D
I am not defending what they did at that time, what I am again saying is a scene in Penseive (which might be subjective for all we know) is not an evidence on which you can brand somebody.  We have to have some other instances, and most important, the reason behind the rivalry before we say who is berk and who is not. In this instance, it's James who is a berk, I agree (re-agree???)


>> Del replies :
>> But *why* should he have chosen another House ?? Slytherin is NOT a
>> bad House, and it was even less so at the time. We know NOW that many
>> DEs were former Slytherins, but when Snape got to Hogwarts, the VWI
>> was barely starting, and Slytherin House was not yet tainted with the
>> Dark Mark of the DEs.

Amey:
Yes, but still it was a house founded by *Pureblood-mania*c. Also, people there were obsessed with Dark Arts, even if we have only a few examples. So, I think, it would have a bad enough reputation even discounting DEs.

Amey





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