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

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 100818

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "darrin_burnett" 
<bard7696 at a...> wrote:

> I don't see people as rooting for Slytherin redemption. To do so 
> would be to admit  they need redeemed, and we haven't even 
gotten that far yet.
> 
> Apologizing for behavior while trying to drag down Harry's 
behaviors  to some level of moral equivalency -- He was mean to 
the Creevey  boys, so Draco can call Hermione a mudblood if he 
wants -- is not  hoping for redemption.
> 
> To have that, we'd have to have admission that the Slyths are 
> wrong. :)

Hmmm...I can recall a lot of argument on this list over *who* 
should be considered capable  or guilty of racism and murder, 
but I can't recall anyone seriously arguing that racism and 
murder are okay. And I think most of us understand the position, 
though we might not agree, that racist name-calling is a hate 
crime and should be considered worse than bullying in general. 

But "Slyths are wrong?" Even Hagrid, no apologist for Slytherin, 
racism or murder, doesn't think all Slytherins become evil 
wizards.  He doesn't think Snape is an evil wizard, does he?  So 
to say "Slyths are wrong" seems to be going beyond the books, 
IMO.

Pippin