Slytherin House WAS: Sportsmanship in Harry Potter

[Joe Goodwin]

No: HPFGUIDX 151837


Silmariel:Na, I think they're not so bad as the Slytherin legend has made them. As a 
whole House, of course. Even Draco, till HBP, was pretty pathetic as a 
villain. Too much ado about nothing. 'Cause Harry always wins.
   
  Joe: 
So it's okay Malfoy to be horrible as long as he's a complete moron at it? Sorry but just because you stink at being a racist bully doesn't make it okay. 

Silmariel: 
Hey, I believe DE children are a small fraction of the house, and it would be 
too brutal for words if all of them would be as D,C&G - but that's because I 
tend to believe the author.
JKR: But they're not all - don't think I don't take your point, but - we, the 
reader, and I as the writer, because I'm leading you all there - you are 
seeing Slytherin house always from the perspective of Death Eaters' children. 
*They are a _small_fraction_ of the total Slytherin population* (emphasis 
mine, silmariel). I'm not saying all the other Slytherins are adorable, but 
they're certainly not Draco, they're certainly not, you know, Crabbe and 
Goyle. They're not all like that, that would be too brutal for words, 
wouldn't it?
ES: But there aren't a lot of Death Eater children in the other houses, are 
there?
JKR: You will have people connected with Death Eaters in the other houses, 
yeah,  absolutely.
ES: Just in lesser numbers.

  Joe:
 I snipped a lot of your post to keep the reply from being to long. But I see what you posted as supporting my position. I didn't say all the Slytherins were evil and Death Eaters. I did say that many of them were low down cheating scumbags. JKR says they do not represent the most noble and generous of charicteristics. She also says that she isn't saying all the other Slytherins are adorable either. What she is saying is that they can be rotten people and not be evil.


Silmariel:
Now, to be fair, I don't see Draco as a bully for his interactions with the 
trio, maybe for Neville, but yes for this:

"A short distance away, Draco Malfoy, followed by a small gang of cronies 
including Crabble, Goyle and Pansy Parkinson, was pushing some timid-looking 
second years out of the way so that he and his friends could get a coach to 
themselves." OoP - ch 10 Luna Lovegood 
   
  Joe: 
Exactly why isn't it bullying when Malfoy, Crabbe and Goyle? Can you only try to bully some people? No offense but that doesn't make any sense at all.
   
  Not all Slytherins are skinheads in nice robes like Malfoy, Crabbe and Goyle but many of them are horrible people. Thats the reason why the other House think they are horrible. Because enough of them are that it stands out.

Not everybody is just a misunderstood teddy bear.
   
  Joe