"Slytherin" Hermione?

delwynmarch delwynmarch at yahoo.com
Wed Sep 8 20:09:14 UTC 2004


No: HPFGUIDX 112403

totorivers wrote :
" The hex is just something written on her face, and it is a meek 
punishment for someone that got the headmaster thrown out: By not 
healing her, it could be a statement that students can *not* attack 
teachers. And in that case they are justified."

Del replies :
Where *ever* did you read that Marrietta attacked DD ??? Her action
had *nothing* to do with DD !! She told on the DA for reasons that we
know nothing about, but it's quite obvious that her intention was
NEVER to get DD thrown out !! Just like Harry never intended to get
Sirius killed when he went to the MoM.

totorivers wrote :
" For Slytherin being evil, or at least not worthy of trust, goes 
with them being primary ambitious. What I mean is that some Gryffindor
can believe mainly in bravery and then in ambition, or in wit, and so
on. The problem with Slytherin is that they place ambition as their
primary quality, above moral or anything else. They are people that
*live* for the ambition, and are not ambitious for their lives. Their
fear have got the better of them and, for me, another trait of
Slytherin house is cowardness. It is quite explicit with Lucious
Malfoy, whose ambition brings him to a life time of kissing an half
blood robes because he is afraid of change and of living."

Del replies :
What is quite obvious is that you are judging all the Slytherins after
only a handful of them. And where does it say that they place ambition
over moral, or that they are afraid to live and die ? Just because
some of them are like that doesn't mean they all are. After all, if we
judge all the Gryffindors after pre-OoP Neville, or Peter Pettigrew,
or the Creevey brothers, or even Percy or Ron Weasley, they wouldn't
look too good either, would they ?

Del





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