[HPforGrownups] Re: CHAPDISC: HBP7, The Slug Club--Theo Nott

[Lia]

No: HPFGUIDX 145962


justcarol67 <justcarol67 at yahoo.com> wrote:
 
 ...he also needs someone who can talk about Theo Nott, who rather oddly isn't present in what the narrator refers to as the sixth-year Slytherin compartment. Neither, of course, is Pansy Parkinson's "gang of Slytherin girls." Maybe they're all falling over Theo in some other compartment, though I rather doubt it. (Theo was my candidate for Good Slytherin and I'm still hoping we'll see more of him. I just hope he  doesn't drop out of Hogwarts to join Draco and share his "glory.")
 

Lia muses:
 
 Funny you should mention that about Theo Nott (among all the other fine points you made).  He was/is my "Good Slytherin" candidate too, for his last name seemed to be a clue, and he keeps getting mentioned here and there.  Perhaps he wasn't present in the compartment because he doesn't generally enjoy the company of other Slytherins, because he's "nott" actually "one of them".  
 
 Of course, so many of the "good" have flaws themselves that it makes one wonder what a "good" Slytherin would be like.  As I said in another post, one thing I keep noticing is not only that characters merely develop and/or change, but that there's more to them than meets the eye, even when they seem "fleshed out"; in other words, they can be surprising.  (Wouldn't it be weird, for instance, if Draco turned out to be the Good Slytherin?  I'm thinking of the vulnerability he displayed to Myrtle...based on fear, perhaps, but also stemming from something else?  Whoa, I may be stretching now, here...)