The good Slytherin - Should we assume that S. House is not all evil?

[delwynmarch]

No: HPFGUIDX 131530

Alla wrote:
"Are we supposed to think that Slytherin house is not all Evil simply
 because there is a possibility that we have not met some of its 
members yet?"

Del replies:
I can't believe that I'm reading something as fundamentally prejudiced
as THAT, especially coming from someone who so adamantly claims to
be against prejudice...

Let me ask you a few questions, Alla:

1. WHERE in the CANON does it say that we are supposed to believe that
all Slytherins are evil?

2. You're the lawyer: isn't there a little rhyme that goes something
like "assumed innocent until proven guilty"?

3. What beginning of proof do you have that Blaise Zabini, Theo Nott
and Daphne Greengrass, 3 Slytherin students in Harry's year, 3
students that he has been meeting several times a week for 5 years,
are evil? We know for a fact that Theo Nott has been so neutral to
Harry that Harry didn't even manage to learn his name in 4+ years!

4. What about Malcolm Baddock, Tracey Davis, Derrick, Terence Higgs,
Graham Pritchard and Adrian Pucey? Are you REALLY saying that we are
SUPPOSED to ASSUME that they are all evil simply because JKR didn't
say otherwise?

"They are Slytherins, so they are evil." Disgusting, prejudiced,
unfounded, and unworthy of the wonderfully intricate, subtle, and
complicated world that the Potterverse is increasingly showing itself
to be.

Del, irate