Slytherin House: DE's and others

[imamommy at sbcglobal.net]

No: HPFGUIDX 101302

imamommy:

I don't think that all Slytherins turn out to be Voldemort followers,
but I don't know that they are necessarily pleasant, either.  I have
my own theories on possible Slytherins.  For example:

1. Barty Crouch, Sr. fits a Slytherin profile, pureblood, highly
ambitious, ruthless, but never a DE.

2. Rita Skeeter also has a highly ambitious personality, as does

3. Prof. Lockheart, as does

4. Delores Umbridge

5. Cornelius Fudge 

IMO, any or all of these may have been in Slytherin House. 

Snape *was* a DE, but is no longer, yet I don't think he's lost any of
his "Slytherin-ness".  (Maybe Snape is the "Good Slytherin"!)

I don't think JKR is trying to pidgeonhole anyone, I think she's
recognizing that, oh, maybe 25% of the population have these
particular attributes.  They won't all turn out to be DE's, maybe, but
they will still have ambition as a common thread.

imamommy
who wonders if the sorting hat shouldn't have chucked Percy Weasley in
Slytherin