JKR's dismay at favourite fansite Slytherins

[A.J.]

No: HPFGUIDX 100072

Kneasy wrote:
> I will be severely disappointed if any of this redemption and 
> forgiveness stuff comes to pass. Why should it? No reason at all, 
> so far as I can see. In fact, just the opposite.
> In five books there  hasn't been *one* good Slytherin. And the way 
> JKR responds to the inclinations of fandom suggests that she's not 
> about to alter her view of them as anything other than a thoroughly 
> bad lot.

As I was explaining to a friend tonight, this makes yet more sense 
now.  The friend asked what the mudblood/pureblood standards were by 
Slytherin and I mentioned some of the recent postings on this board.  
Then I went on to say that, really, if one considers that anything 
else in the wizard's ancestry than just pureblood human wizards makes 
the offspring not 100% pureblood, this is limiting indeed: just as 
the WW moves forward (we hope- well, at least under Dumbledore) to 
greater unity by working together with part-veelas such as Fleur, 
part-giants such as Hagrid, part-muggles, foreign land wizards, and 
trying to work better with centaurs, goblins, giants, elves and 
improve their lot and representation- uniting as the Sorting Hat 
seems to hope, and symbolized by the destruction of the wizard-
idolized MOM fountain- there is no room for pureblood-human-only 
Slytherin snobbishness.  (Was that one sentence? >g>) 

It may very well be that some Slytherin aspect will be subsumed in 
Book 7 to symbolize coagulation as in alchemy, but the continuation of 
the House of Slytherin IF based on pureblood bigotry is a dying cause 
and diminishing in numbers.  (If the sorting were based instead on 
extrovert/introvert heart/head ruling, as some wonder, then maybe it 
could stay... but that's not necessarily canon.)

aj