The good Slytherin

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 130929

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "horridporrid03" 
<horridporrid03 at y...> wrote:

Betsy Hp:
> It's a theory.  One I'd find particularly disappointing myself. (Of 
> course I have high hopes Draco will be the "good Slytherin" so take 
> this for what it's worth. <g>)  For one thing Krum is not a 
Hogwarts 
> graduate, for another he's not Harry's peer, and most importantly 
> he's not a Slytherin.
> 
> Karkaroff, as a friend of Snape, had his students sit with 
> Slytherin, but Krum didn't seem to interact with any of the 
> students, IIRC (except Hermione).
> 
> I also take issue with the idea that all things dark and evil 
should 
> be associated with Slytherin.  It sounds to stereotypical to my 
> mind, and it lays too much on the Slytherin doorstep, IMO.  

Geoff:
Just in passing, I must admit that I have a sneaking wish that Draco 
might just turn back from the dark side of things.....

However, my main comment is that, if we look on "good" as meaning 
turning away from the Dark Arts and working with the side of light, 
we do have a good Slytherin already.

Much as I dislike the man, Snape fits this category already. He has 
turned his back on his Death Eater status and is obviously working 
for Dumbledore's side and facing a substantial degree of risk. The 
problem is that he carries all this off with such bad grace.

Someone has remarked in a reply that just because a person chooses 
Slytherin doesn't make them scum. We need to remember that they 
didn't /choose/ the house, the Sorting Hat placed them there. They 
may have accepted this because, at the age of 11, they thought that 
this was what Hogwarts wanted and couldn't be altered; so I wonder 
how many incoming pupils over the years have challenged the Sorting 
Hat's thinking as Harry did?