What about Hogwarts? Slytherins and More

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 157996


See responses below.

---  "laurawkids" <balrogmama at ...> wrote:
>
>  "Steve" <bboyminn@> wrote:
> >
> > 
> > 7.) The DA Club - OK, everyone else has written this
> > off, but I won't give up, I'm determined to get the 
> > DA Club  back into the plot. ...
> > 
> 
> Laurawkids:
> 
> YES!  Don't give up on this one.  ...
> 

Steve:

Thanks, at least somebody likes my idea.


> Laurawkids:
>
> Why would we limit the trainees to the original DA?  
> We need all the help we can get.  That would easily 
> include the Slytherins. 
> 
> If Hitler informed JKR's thoughts, I can see this 
> happening.
> 
> Laura, who would wave a little Hogwart's flag if I had
>  one.
>


Steve: 

Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that it would just be the
old DA member continuing on. I meant to imply that the
Club would be open to the whole school including 
Slytherins, and that Harry would use the original DA 
members as his assistants to teach everyone who was 
interested. 

This is actually an old idea I've had for a long time. I 
think having Slytherins in the DA Club would help Harry 
sort out who is friends or allies were and who he should 
watch out for. JKR has said that all Slytherins are not 
bad, and that we get a warped view of them because we see
them mostly in association with Draco. 

I speculate that if the DA Club is reformed, that when 
the attack on Hogwarts comes, Harry will find some of the
Slytherins fighting on his side. Thus uniting the Houses.

I can't believe they are all so blind that they can not 
see that if Voldemort wins, he will leave the wizard world
with a disfunctional wreak of a society. I honestly don't
believe Voldemort and his crew are capable of functionally
running a country, and once the war is won, that will be 
exactly the task at hand.

Slytherins are suppose to be cunning and ambitious. I keep
thinking that there must be /some/ of them who see that
having a mad megalomaniacal tyrannical dictator in charge 
is not going to be good for business, and that which is 
not good for business, is not good for personal 
prosperity. 

Slytherins wouldn't oppose the war on moral grounds, it 
would be pure self-interest and greed. They would look at
the possibilities and ask, under which circumstance can I
make more money, under which circumstance will I have the
freedom to become more rich and powerful. 

To some, if they are at the very top of Voldemort's 
organization, if they are in the inner circle, they can 
rob society blind, and thereby be very rich and powerful. 
But for those outside the inner circle, you are screwed 
(pardon the French). It will be /you/ that the Death 
Eaters are 'robbing blind', and that is just not good for
personal prosperity.

So, on practical grounds, I can only assume that any 
clear thinking Slytherin would see Voldemort as a lost 
cause.

You heard it here first...again.

Steve/bboyminn