Slytherin redemption

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No: HPFGUIDX 150802

> >> Joe Goodwin: 
> > <snip>   
> > 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.
> > <snip>

> >>Lupinlore:
> <snip>
> 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?

Betsy Hp:
I agree with your reservations, Lupinlore (which I snipped), that 
it's awfully late in the day for unknown, or barely known, 
Slytherins to come forth and help rejoin their house to the Hogwarts 
whole.  (I've discounted Theo Nott since the deleted scenes bit on 
JKR's website.  I think Nott's story has gone the way of Dean's.)

> >>Joe Goodwin:
> > 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. 
> > <snip>   

> >>Lupinlore: 
> I agree.  We also should remember that Peter Pettigrew is lurking 
> out there as a possible figure of redemption.
> <snip>

Betsy Hp:
But, Peter Pettigrew is a Gryffindor.  What could he possibly do to 
help the Slytherin end of a Hogwarts uniting party?

Frankly, I've been waiting for Draco to join Harry's gang since book 
one.  It's a classic bit for the school-days genre, IIRC, for former 
peer enemies to become friends.   (Just as classic as the new 
understanding and respect for the curmudgeonly teacher. <g>)

But beyond that, Draco *is* the face of Slytherin for Harry (and 
therefore, the readers).  We're talking about the healing of a rift 
centuries old.  There has to be a profound coming together to 
overcome something that embedded into the school consciousness. 
Something beyond a few "rebel" or "minor" Slytherins.

That Draco comes from two major Slytherin families is important, I 
think.  Just as Harry befriended the major Gryffindor family (the 
Weasleys), I feel like Draco's role as the Slytherin heir, in spirit 
if not reality, will be important.  

Betsy Hp