[HPforGrownups] Re: My Most Annoying Character

[IreneMikhlin]

No: HPFGUIDX 180105

lizzyben wrote:

> lizzyben:
> 
> Yep. "(Harry) himself was not contaminated by carrying this bit of
> parasitic soul. He's going through a dark time, and that piece of soul
> is enjoying it, and making its presence felt, but he doesn't know what
> he's feeling, of course. Also, I always imagine that the Sorting Hat
> detected the presence of that piece of soul when Harry first tried it
> on, because it's strongly tempted to put him in Slytherin. So that's
> how I see it." 

Gee, and here I thought for a moment that Dumbledore was telling a tiny 
bit of truth in the end of year 2, you know, about Harry having some 
qualities that would make Salazar happy. Silly me. Of course, nothing so 
dirty for our boy.


> JKR:
> "Well, they're not all bad. I know I've said this before, I think I
> said it to Emerson. Well, far from it, as we know, at the end, they
> may have a slightly more highly developed sense of self-preservation
> than other people. A part of the final battle that made me smile was
> Slughorn galloping back with the Slytherins, but they'd gone off to
> get reinforcements first. You know what I'm saying, so yes, they came
> back, they came back to fight. I'm sure many people would say, well
> that's common sense isn't it, isn't that smart, to get help, get more
> people and come back?"
> 
> Slughorn *galloping back with the Slytherins*? When did this happen?
> 

That woman could make some psychoanalyst very happy. A rare case of 
conscious and subconscious in essence divided. :-) In the context of her 
novels it made a perfect sense to have Slytherins the convenient evil, 
so nothing on page points to any of the Slytherins coming back. But when 
she has a chance to reconsider, the conscious mind takes over.

Irene