Cheering on Harry (was : Re: Who is the adult (Was: Who's to blame ...))

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 100801

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "delwynmarch" 
<delwynmarch at y...> wrote:
> Darrin wrote :
> > The Slytherins ARE the bad guys.
> > 
> > They aren't the underdogs. They aren't misunderstood. They aren't 
> > just waiting for a big old hug from some goth teen to redeem them.
> > 
> > They are thinly veiled cariactures of Nazis and KKK and Hitler 
Youth 
> > rolled into one.
> 
> Del replies :
> Erm... I think you've got things slightly wrong here, Darrin. It's 
the
> *Death-Eaters* who are all of that. Not the Slytherins. And I hope 
you
> don't assume that all Slytherins are bound to turn into DE, because
> that would be basically saying that 11-year-old kids can choose to 
be
> evil for the rest of their lives, which they can't.



Alla: 
Dell, I think Darrin got things right here. I think you know my views 
on marking eleven years old as future DE, I think it is stupid.

But, so far as portrayed by Rowling the Slyhterin values are all that 
(all that bad, I mean)


Alla