Decent Slytherins

[kiricat4001]

No: HPFGUIDX 133832

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "jemnilla28" <Janicem211 at a...> 
wrote:
> It looks like JKR certainly is showing a different side to Slytherin 
> through Slughorn. While he's ambitious and somewhat shallow, he 
> certainly doesn't seem evil. Also, while Blaise Zabini seemed 
somewhat 
> hostile to Harry and his friends, it didn't seem like he was 
> necessarily in Malfoy's "Junior Death Eaters" gang.

Marianne:
I agree completely on Slughorn, but Blaise Zabini didn't strike me as 
someone who is going to raise the banner for "the good Slytherin." 
Maybe he's not a Jr. DE, but he shows all of the "typical" Slytherin, 
pre-DE bigotry:

p. 150, HBP, US edition

"Precious Potter..."sneered Malfoy, "but that Weasley girl! What's so 
special about her?"
...
"I wouldn't touch a filthy little blood traitor like her whatever she 
looked like," said Zabini coldly.

jemnilla28:
 Let's also not 
> forget that Crabbe and Goyle, as stupid as they are, are no longer 
in 
> Draco's shadow so they could possibly be persuaded to join the good 
> side (or at least not be Death Eaters themselves). Between all of 
this, 
> maybe we can finally see a uniting of the houses! 

Marianne:
But C and G took orders from Draco all through HBP, even consenting to 
be Polyjiuced into girls.  Draco still seemed to keep his hold on 
them.  Maybe in Book 7 they'll be somewhat adrift with Draco gone, but 
I can't see them suddenly being swept up into a fervor of house 
unity.