Responses of children

[va32h]

No: HPFGUIDX 176299

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "dumbledore11214" 
<dumbledore11214 at ...> wrote:
> Right, this is pretty much a message I got out of it, but what I am 
> trying to figure out whether for your child ( or anybody's child of 
> that age or a couple years older - you know) it was enough to get the 
> message like this out of what transpired in the epilogue. That 
> Slytherins can change and will change, etc.

va32h:
My daughter is 11, nearly 12, and no, she didn't get that out of it. 
Her understanding was that Slytherins were evil from day one, and they 
were still evil, and Harry's just a really, really nice dad who 
wouldn't get mad at his kid for being stuck in the evil house. (Because 
he's Harry, and Harry is a great man and he might have gotten stuck in 
the evil house too, even though he wouldn't have deserved it). But 
Albus Severus wouldn't get stuck in the bad house anyway, because Harry 
told him that he could choose. So the whole scene just shows that Harry 
is really, really good. And that he forgave Snape for being so 
horrible. 

She really doesn't have any problem with that moral either - she always 
thought that was the point. Slytherins are bad and Gryffindors are good 
except for Snape who is working for Dumbledore but still a jerk. 

There were things in the story she didn't like, but this wasn't one of 
them. 

va32h