good and bad Slytherins/Disappointment and Responsibility

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Julie H:

> It's a tangle. I still honestly don't know what 
> the author intends me to think about him in the end. 

houyhnhnm:

Why does it matter what the author intends for you to 
think about a character?  I mean outside of the text 
itself.  Surely that's the reader's job, not the author's.  
JK Rowling created a fascinating imaginary world.  She 
peopled it with characters and made them do and say 
various things.  But it's up to me to decide what I 
think and how I feel about those characters.  That's 
the way I approach the reading of fiction anyway.