The good Slytherin

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 131451

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Caius Marcius" <coriolan at w...>
wrote:

> 
> OK, let me get this straight: we are wrong to stereotype the 
> Slytherins, we are to suppose that they all react as individuals,
but 
> at the same time the fact that they all seem to move as if in 
> lockstep should be relentlessly excused (they're not *joiners*?

Pippin:
There is a notable example in canon which shows that they do
not all move as in lockstep. 

Gof-US 37,723
...Harry saw that Malfoy, Crabbe, Goyle and many of the other
Slytherins had remained defiantly in their seats, their goblets
untouched.
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So we know that at  least a few of them defiantly followed 
Dumbledore's lead rather than Malfoy's and drank to Harry. 
Dumbledore's eyes were on the Slytherin table ("his eyes 
lingered on the Durmstrang students") as he said "we are only 
as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided." 

Between that and the Sorting Hat's new song, the revelation
that even the hardcore Black family turned against Voldie, 
and Harry's grumble that he's not going to be reaching
out to Slytherin any time soon, or words to that effect, it'd
be a misfired Chekhov's gun and a mishandled plot 
development if the issue of Slytherins joining the fight
against Voldie never surfaces.

Pippin