The good Slytherin

[Caius Marcius]

No: HPFGUIDX 131405

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "horridporrid03" 
<horridporrid03 at y...> wrote:
> 
> But, just as various members of the other three houses have been 
> varied in their reactions to Harry and his fight with Voldemort 
> (Smith vs. Macmillan, Cho vs. Luna, Seamus vs. Neville) I'm sure 
> there will be varied reactions within Slytherin house as well.  
Some 
> may welcome the chance to come on board, some may sneer at Harry a 
> bit, some may decide to join Voldemort.  But what I'm hoping for is 
> that not every new recruit for Voldemort is a Slytherin.
> 
What then do you make of the fact that not a single Slytherin joined 
Dumbledore's Army? In fact, no Slytherin even bothered to attend the 
informational meeting at the Hogs Head. Now, perhaps, they were 
implicitly invited to "not" join up by the Gryffindors - and perhaps 
Harry is held in such universal dislike by the Slytherins that they 
chose not to ally themselves with him. And that begs the question, 
why?, if the Slytherins are supposed to be as "nuanced" as you claim.
After all, Hufflepuff has valid reasons to object to accepting Harry 
in a leadership role (his upstaging of Cedric, and his involvement in 
Cedric's death), but they waive their objections in light of their 
belief that Voldemort has returned. 

I think it safe to assume that of the four dorms, Slytherin is the 
one most closely connected with Voldemort and the DEs - so perhaps 
they've heard not only the same rumors that the rest of Hogwarts has 
heard about Voldemort's return, but may have been privy to some 
inside information that the rest of the school has not heard - 
nothing conclusive perhaps, but things like info on the whereabouts 
of the Azkaban escapees, etc.  And there's no Slytherin student 
sufficiently alarmed by any of this to step forward in opposition to 
it?

> However, I do take issue with the idea that no Slytherin could 
*ever* 
> be sweetly good. (Actually, there's something a bit Slytherin in 
Mary 
> Poppins herself, wouldn't you say? <g>)  

I agree: and here's some evidence:

http://home.att.net/~coriolan/voldemort/lestrange.htm#AvadaKedavra

   - CMC