Slytherin behavior across houses wasRe: CHAPT. 25

[potioncat]

No: HPFGUIDX 112084


> > Previously Potioncat wrote:
> > I don't really have any objection to what Hermione has done, 
> > myself.  It's just that it is a Slytherin thing to do and we 
react  to it a certain way because it is Hermione and not Pansy 
> Parkinson.  DD is very Slytherin in his approach to things.  
Sometimes I think  the overall opinion is: If the good guy does it, 
it's OK.  But if the bad guy does it, it isn't OK.

snip

Zoe C:
snip 
> P.S.  Maybe I've missed this somewhere in all the posts, but in 
what  way is DD 'Slytherin' in his approach to things?

Potioncat:

I'm not sure what JKR thinks about Hermione's solution to Rita.  But 
to me it was a cunning, means to an end approach to a real 
problem.    Therefore: Slytherin.  So far in the books, the 
Slytherins have been the bad guys.  But are they always the bad 
guys?  And are Slytherin traits sometimes good things?

DD also seems to have a "means to an end" approach to things.  
Suggesting the TT to save Buckbeak and Serius comes to mind. Leaving 
Harry with the Dursleys... I know there are others...soon, very soon 
I'll be able to check canon again.

I'm wondering if JKR is slowly setting up some parallels for us in 
order to turn things upside down?