Scapegoating Slytherin - The Moral Majority

[a_svirn]

No: HPFGUIDX 144428

> Betsy Hp:
> I totally agree.  In some ways I think the "No Slytherins" sign 
> hanging on the DA club house door may well have helped form the 
> Inquisitorial Squad.  The Slytherins were just as hurt by Umbridge 
> as the rest of the school (she may well be the reason Crabbe and 
> Goyle didn't get an OWL in DADA), and Umbridge was rather hostile 
> towards Snape, their beloved head of house.  

a_svirn:
When was she hostile to Snape? I seem to remember she was pleased 
with the lesson she visited, even though she judged it "advanced".  
She only got hostile when he proved to be uncooperative with the 
Veritaserum. And "beloved" is coming rather too strong. I don't 
think even Draco ever held him in that much affection. 

> Betsy Hp:
It doesn't make sense 
> that Slytherin students would naturally want to help someone 
> standing so obviously in their way.  Unless helping was the only 
> real option left to them.

a_svirn:
I can't think of any reason why minding their business wasn't a 
valuable option? Of course it doesn't present the same opportunity 
for bullying. 
> 
> Betsy Hp:
>  And I also think that Draco 
> is going to be the representative of that healing.
> 
> He is the established face of Slytherin, both for the readers and 
> for Harry.  He's a leader within his house, and he encapsulates 
both 
> the negative and I think positive aspects of Slytherin.  

a_svirn:

I don't see him as a leader. He only ever had two thugs to boss 
about and a girl who has had a crush on him from the day one.

> Betsy Hp:
The 
> negative (the blood bigotry) is already starting to slip.  

a_svirn:
Not noticeably. 

> Betsy Hp:
(I 
> honestly don't think it was all that firmly attached to begin 
with.)

a_svirn:
I wonder why would you believe in it so firmly? With all the 
evidence to the contrary?