Let's burn down the Houses

[potioncat]

No: HPFGUIDX 106932


Demetra 1225 wrote: 
> "I do hope that we find out in later books that Snape is doing 
> something behing the scenes to discourage the Slytherins from 
> following the DE path, because otherwise I think that those kids 
> were shortchanged by the whole sorting system."


Meidbh wrote: 
> Yes! And I think in his own inimitable way he is. He is a former 
(we 
> hope!) DE. He played with the really big bad boys and then turned 
> his back on them. He knows the heart of a Slytherin better than 
they 
> know themselves and he has their respect. As long as they respect 
> him they will notice that it is Dumbledore he defers to and not 
> Voldemort. And as long as that message is loud and clear I think 
> Snape is playing his part in the fight against Evil (despite being 
a  rather nasty, bitter, twisted man).


Potioncat:
But where is the canon that would show that?  We don't ever see him 
correcting a Slytherin, much less doing anything to turn them from 
DE philosophy.  That bothers me more than his "mistreatment" of 
Harry and Neville.  For that matter, we don't see anyone trying to 
direct the Slytherins!