Slytherin redemption

[lupinlore]

No: HPFGUIDX 150789

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Joe Goodwin 
<joegoodwin1067 at ...> wrote:
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>   To me this means that one of the lesser known Slytherins, say 
Goyle or even Parkinson is going to step and and decided that it is 
their best interest to work against Voldemort. Note I don't think 
they will do it because they are wonderful people but because they 
recognise what the wizarding world would be like if Voldemort won.

I understand where you're coming from, and I agree with your 
reservations.  Having said all that, I think in order for this 
scenario to really be effective it requires either another major 
character or a set of minor characters to step forth from Slytherin, 
and it's awfully late in the day for that.  It is possible JKR will 
do it anyway.  I do think she sometimes has problems with timing in 
the series as a whole -- i.e. she waits too long to introduce 
important points.  Thus we have Ginny rushing out of the wings in 
HBP when a more gradual development over two or three books would 
have been better, and Draco's sudden development dropped out  of the 
sky as well (I know some say it was foreshadowed but sorry, I just 
don't buy that).  

So I guess I'm saying I agree with you, and I think it may well 
happen (and the hints about the deleted scene with Theodore Nott 
from earlier books seem to lean in that direction), but it seems 
like an eleventh hour development if there ever was one.  I wonder 
if this was the role the Weasley cousin was originally supposed to 
play?

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>   It just seems to me and Snape and Draco both working for the 
good guys after having seen the error of their ways is a good bit 
too contrived for a writer as imaginative as JKR. If that happened I 
would expect everyone to join hands and sing Christmas Carols in 
Whoville.
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I agree.  We also should remember that Peter Pettigrew is lurking 
out there as a possible figure of redemption.  I know a lot of 
people don't like that possibility, and I suppose I understand why 
(although I don't think that Pettigrew's sins are all that much 
different than Snape's).  But JKR has pretty much said, via 
Dumbledore, that Pettigrew and his life debt to Harry will be 
important.  Are we going to have three redemption stories 
simultaneously?  Oh well, DaHoo DoeRay.

Lupinlore