Slytherins come back WAS: Re: My Most Annoying Character

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 180110

> Magpie:
> You know, I try to stay away from any psychoanalyzing and I still 
> don't have anything to say about JKR as a person, but these 
> interviews really do make the world crumble even more to pieces or 
> show big holes in it--at least to me. There is no fricken' moment 
of 
> Slughorn galumphing back with any Slytherins. The Slytherins just 
> leave in the book. And if they were supposed to have a triumphant 
> return it would have to be there. Instead we got 7 books of the 
> opposite and no moment where the narrator or Harry says, "Hey, 
look! 
> The Slytherins didn't leave at all! They just went to get other 
> people!" 
><SNIP>

Alla:

I do want to put my POV on this one out.

When I heard that interview, I laughed, but I did not laugh because 
I 
thought that JKR is going to make pyschoanalyst very happy or 
anything 
like that.

I laughed because I thought that for her it may have been obvious 
that 
since their Head of the house came back that other Slytherins came 
back too and she did not feel a need to write it in.

Now, why would you ask she did not feel a need to do that if we do 
not 
see the triumphant return in the book?

Indeed we do not, but I think that she may not have felt a need to 
treat it as major issue and just sort of wrote as default position - 
Slughorn comes back and that means that some of his students do too.

Like she did not feel that she wanted "triumphant" return to give to 
Slytherins, just the return behind Slughorn if that makes sense.

I mean, I do not care either way, but if you remember, some people 
DID 
assume that Slughorn comes back means his students do too, they sort 
of followed where JKR wanted them to, no?

I found this very funny, yes.

JMO,

Alla