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

[delwynmarch]

No: HPFGUIDX 100829


Darrin 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.

Del replies :
The Slytherin *kids* can't need redemption, since they haven't done
anything horrible yet. Name-calling and bullying aren't such horrible
things as to need redemption.

Darrin wrote :
> 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.

Del replies :
I think you're referring to one of my posts when you mention the
Creevey brothers. But nowhere in my posts will you find such reasoning
as the one you just gave : A does evil, so B can too. Please don't mix
everything together.

Darrin wrote :
> To have that, we'd have to have admission that the Slyths are 
> wrong. :)

Del replies :
And for the Slytherins to be wrong, they would need to know good from
evil. Even Harry doesn't always get that one right, and he's in
Gryffindor, and he's got all the right role-models.
The Slytherins are sticking to their values, the ones that have been
taught to them, the ones they think are being attacked. What's wrong
with that ?
At the end of OoP, Draco says to Harry "You can't put my dad in
prison". Obviously, Draco still hasn't figured out that there's MUCH
more than his petty little disputes with Harry at stake.
After all, when the Trio puts up the DA, they have to fight to get
into the heads of their fellow students that this is about something
much bigger than a DADA club or getting some kind of revenge over
Umbridge. At first, nobody understands the scope of the fight they are
getting into. LV is still an abstract concept for them at first. And I
think it's the same for the Slytherin kids : they still haven't
figured out what is *really* going on. And how could they, since
noone's telling them ? Or at least, noone on the right side...

Del