Danger in designating an "Other" / Bad magic

[Beatrice23]

No: HPFGUIDX 174162


> Alla:
> 
> The problem is that there is no **other** picture of Slytherin now, 
> only what we saw since the canon is finished.
> 
> I mean, no wrong phrasing - it is not a problem for me, I am 
> perfectly happy with baby steps she shows IMO in canon towards 
> possibly healing the rift or NOT.
> 
> But I just do not see what is the support for your argument that 
this 
> is not the ONLY accurate picture of Slytherin. If you mean that the 
> reader is free to imagine the different picture other than what we 
> had been given, then sure, we are.
> 
> I for example became extraordinary found of AU fanfics since Sirius 
> was killed :).
> 
> But but Sirius being alive is not in the book, no? Just as 
Slytherins 
> returning to fight is not in the book or any justifications for 
what 
> Pansy did is not in the book. The POV we had been given stands, 
> since we had been given nothing to contradict it, IMO.
> 
> JMO,
> 
> Alla

Beatrice:  I'm being wrongly accused of constructing "A READING" of 
the text here or perhaps more accurately "a re-reading" or re-
working.  I'm not trying to do either.  All I have tried to do, and I 
am being skewered for it like I was for suggesting that Harry's body 
housed a portion of Voldemort's soul that was accidently put into him 
at Godric's Hollow, is suggest that the novel has a limited narration 
and that it is wrong to assume that Harry's perspective and JKR's 
perspective are exactly alike.  While they certainly may be linked 
together only JKR can tell us where one begins and one ends.  

I am not suggesting that Pansy returned to fight nor do I suggest any 
such thing, what I am saying is that just because she didn't fight 
doesn't mean that she is evil or supports Death Eaters.  AGAIN I am 
using her only as a brief example, to illustrate that nowhere in the 
canon does it say that every Slitherin is evil.  Nor does the text 
support that reading.  I used Pansy as an example to show that her 
behavior at the end of DH, while repellent, upon close examination 
cannot exactly be labeled as evil, or at least there is another way 
to look at her actions.

Beatrice.
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