Bad news ... for Slytherins- The Good Slytherin

[Eustace_Scrubb]

No: HPFGUIDX 98604

potioncat wrote:
> What concerns me more on the issue of the Good Slytherin, is JKR's 
> statement that too many of the people on the chat she attended 
> identified with Slytherin. It really sounds like she considers 
> Slytherins the bad guys.  
> 
> Potioncat

Eustace_Scrubb:

I agree with those who think that JKR's notes about Theodore Nott
increase the chances that he'll turn up in some role in one of the
next two books.

The real question is can one (or two or six) "Good Slytherins" effect
the unity of the four houses, which the Sorting Hat alluded to in OoTP
and which is behind the "Good Slytherin" speculation, if I'm not too
mistaken.  Unless the "Good Slytherin" is also a good leader of other
Slytherins (and Theodore's a loner, not a leader, in the cut
backstory).

I also wonder exactly how the scene between Theodore and Draco would
have worked, given that with very few exceptions (Chapter 1 of SS/PS,
are there others that weren't at least part of Harry's dreams), the
reader sees the story from Harry's viewpoint.  It seems unlikely that
Harry would have present for this meeting and doesn't seem to fit in
with any of his dream patterns.  Maybe that's why it was cut?

Cheers,

Eustace_Scrubb