The good Slytherin

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No: HPFGUIDX 131395

> Betsy Hp:
<SNIP>  
> But Harry (and his friends it seems like) have written the entire 
> house off as Death Eaters in training and that's a mistake, IMO. 
(And 
> apparently the Sorting Hat's too <eg>.)

Alla:

And I am saying that IF this is a mistake, there was no way Harry 
could NOT make it. I hate explaining it by plot related reasons, but 
I see no other explanations.

Betsy: 
<SNIP>
Because Harry is so *set* in his dislike of the entire house I feel 
like it'll take something fairly spectacular for him to finally 
realize that being Slytherin does not automatically mean evil.

Alla:

It may very well be, but as Potioncat once said ( I think) all out 
theories could be very wrong and it may be that good Slytherin will 
never appear at all. :-)



> >>Alla wrote earlier: 
Again, I AGREE  that Harry will see  that not all Slytherins are as 
bad as Draco is, but for now in my mind Draco is the typical 
representative of House Slytherin simply because I did not see 
anything to the contrary.<
> 
Betsy Hp:
And this is a view I could *never* agree with.  Not in a universe as 
beautifully grey as JKRs.  For one, Draco is such a *bad* 
Slytherin.  There's nothing cunning about him, so it's hard for me 
to judge him as a "typical" Slytherin (though I agree that Harry 
does see him this way). 

Alla:

JKR's universe may be grey, but as I said before  I think 
that "good" and "bad" defined very clearly and if she decided to 
define "Slytherin" as bad ( I doubt it, but I think it is entirely 
possible), I can live with it. :-)

And, NO, I don't think that Draco is not cunning, I think he is a 
VERY typical Slytherin in that aspect. Him milking  his injury from 
Buckbeak is a good example of that, IMO.


Betsy:
 For another, judging a house by the behavior of one student is 
> just...  you can see that it's unfair right? 

Alla:

Yes. I answered that question several times already.


Betsy HP:
<SNIP>
 That's part of why I enjoy the 
> books.  Nothing automatically predisposes someone to be good or 
evil.

Alla:

And about that I am not so sure. I think character disposition plays 
a very big part in 'potterverse", but for the better explanation of 
that I really need Nora. :-)


Just my opinion,

Alla.