[HPforGrownups] Re: Newbie and some questions about Slytherins

[silmariel]

No: HPFGUIDX 92011

-- Repost  due to incorrect names for the quoted listies --

Krissy:
> > Ok, ok, I admit...I like the Slytherins. I feel kind of bad for
> > them, because I don't know how many of them even have a freewill
> > to decide how they behave and treat people.



Siriusly Snapey Susan:
> It may not be an
> *easy* road to take to defy parents or tradition, but everyone
> certainly has free will.  Isn't that just about the most major theme
> of the series to far, that it's more about our *choices* than anything
> else?

What I'd like to know is why we must suposse they are bad or they haven't
taken choices only because Harry, as the archetipical Gryffindor leader
Slytherin hater, does believe it.

This is about choices? Well, a Griffindor chosed to Crucio another human
 being and I'm not saying he's a bad rotten apple. Have a Slytherin do it
 with identical motives and he'd be judged by the 'unforgivable' law.
 Slytherins are excluded and in that position is not no easy to choose. When
 gryffindor chose the 'good' side, they are taking the easy path. After all,
 it is what we expect from them.

If a Griffindor in Harry's year is affected by his family prejudices, to ask
that Slytherins, heavily prejudiced families, suddenly choose, is kind of a
miracle. Let's say that there are Slytherins who are snobbish and muggle
haters without automatically thinking that is is a good thing to do to
torture or kill them. A 'weak' or 'nice' slave owner instead a ruthless one.
You can say that's still bad, but I've got the feeling that Slytherin are so
disregarded that they'd be shot on sight, without taking the time to look who
he is. The rule is: If is a Slytherin student, just shoot. They are all bad.

But we don't have a clue of how the Slytherin house member's are. We know
 only the side that Harry knows, and Harry is a greatly prejudiced witness.
 As Carol (justcarol67) points out in the 'GG and SS' thread:

Carol:
<<Actually the entire school, even Draco and his cronies, stood and
raised their goblets in tribute to Cedric Diggory at the end of GoF,
and IIRC, some of the Slytherins even remained standing for Harry
(though Draco and his friends defiantly sat down). Also (as I've
mentioned before) all of the third-year Slytherins except Draco,
Crabbe, and Goyle cheered for Harry when he succeeded in riding Buckbeak. >>

So as a collective I don't see them 'all bad', just that Harry thinks so.

Silmariel




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