Who is the adult (Was: Who's to blame for Occlumency?)

[potioncat]

No: HPFGUIDX 100795

Darrin wrote:

> I really do wonder about people who find such fault with Harry, 
who 
> seem to speak of Harry with such disdain, who adore everything 
about 
> Snape and sometimes, the other Slytherins - (Please note that I am 
> not applying all of this to this particular poster - I simply have 
> not read enough of his/her thoughts to know) 
> 
> It makes me wonder what they get out of the books, if they are 
> cheering for the bad guys.
> 
> And this gives me the chance to post one of my other moderately 
> infamous rants, which my young friend Talia Dawn will remember.
> 
> The Slytherins ARE the bad guys.

Potioncat:
OK, if we all agree that Harry is wonderful and perfect and 
Slytherins are bad and evil.  What are we going to discuss?  I think 
Harry's favorite color is blue?  What do you think is Harry's 
favorite color?  Or, is Harry's magic so powerful that he could 
conjure a rock so big that even he couldn't levitate it? (thank you 
George Carlin)

I am not a Harry hater.  I have  a 15 year old son who was behaving 
a lot like Harry did in OoP.  (Thankfully he moved out of that phase 
but  boy, there were times I would have loved to throw a jar of 
cockroaches at him!) If Harry was perfect this series would 
be "Brady Bunch goes to Boarding school" and Snape would grumble 
that his porridge was too hot.

I think the fun is, Harry does screw up and unpleasant teachers are 
part of the good guys.  And the question is, if one Slytherin can be 
on the good side, are there others?  And because JKR has set us 
before, we ask, is she setting us up this time?

Potioncat (who admits sometimes particular threads are not fun and 
I've learned to walk away...sometimes I just don't walk away soon 
enough.)