The two good Slytherins

Alice loptwyn at yahoo.com
Wed Aug 29 14:03:42 UTC 2007


No: HPFGUIDX 176406

allthecoolnamesgone:

> Regulus was a character who fully redeemed his Slytherin and Death
> Eater past.
>  earned it.
>

I was also very impressed with Regulus.  I wonder how many other
wizards, Slytherin or otherwise, would have chosen to drink that
potion themselves when they had a perfectly biddable house elf with
them to do it (I think of Slughorn's offhand comment in Book 6 about
having tested his drinks on a house elf first. which probably shows
the typical wizarding world view of house elves).

Kreacher seems in Book 5 as having a delusional level of loyalty to
the Black House, but in Book 7 we see that his loyalty to his dead
master was in fact justifiable and well-deserved.

(Poor Kreacher--I felt so sad thinking of what he must have felt when
no one came home to eat his steak-and-kidney pie!)

MadAlice
>:>





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