The good Slytherin - Shades of Grey

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> > Alla:
> > 
> > I am assuming based on Slytherins I met  in the books so far.
> >  
> 
> Pippin:
> ::blinks:: Are you saying Jo could write, "All Slytherins are bad
> because they're prejudiced" without any sense of irony?
> I don't _think_  so. 


Alla:

I think she can go either way, Pippin. I think she can easily get 
away with doing exactly that.

Only I would form it not "All Slytherins are bad because they are 
prejudiced", but because they share this particular form of 
prejudice.

Would I personally be happy with such direction? Not really, BUT 
that is only when I look at the story from outside and would ask 
myself again " could it be that so many kids in WW are predestined 
to be bad?"

When I look at the story from within, I don't really care if all 
Slytherins would end up being bad. Why? Because so far ( thanks to 
JKR :-)) I had been led to dislike all Slytherins I saw in the 
books  or at most love/hate them at the same time ( Snape).


Now, she can of course go into other direction, but again she had no 
problem stating that Gryffindor is her favorite house  and she 
values courage beyond anything in the world ( paraphrase).

I don't see why it would be problematic for her to portray House 
which seems to be the opposite of Gryffindor as villains. ( again, 
not very realistic to me, but JKR can do whatever she  wants, no?)


Pippin:
> That's something I see in Sirius also ,  very much so. As Jo says,
> he spouts that the world isn't divided into good people and 
> Death Eaters, but he never acts as though there might be
> any latent good qualities in Snape.


Alla:

Well, the word "latent" tells me that you have to look hard  to find 
those qualities. I am not really surprised that Sirius was not 
willing to look very hard in Snape's soul to find them. :-), giving 
their history.

JMO,
Alla.