Slytherins come back WAS: Re: My Most Annoying Character

[sistermagpie]

No: HPFGUIDX 180114

> 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.

Magpie:
Yeah, it makes sense but it doesn't hold up. She's already had people 
challenge her with the "why don't they just kill them?" question. She 
was careful enough to set them up as turncoats with all 
the "Slytherin needs to choose sides NOW" followed by them being 
ordered out *at wandpoint* after dramatically siding against Harry 
and a whole book of Slytherin being associated with Voldemort and 
left out when the other houses band together, just as they did in 
OotP. She hasn't characterized the Slytherins to be able to just join 
in the good fight without us being told that. She didn't characterize 
them that way in DH. It's not just that it wasn't triumphant, it's 
that it wasn't there.

Even the very sentence she's referring to says Slughorn returns with 
the relatives of the students who stayed to fight (no Slytherins 
there) and the shopkeepers in Hogsmeade (so not students). She 
actually did think it was a good idea to tell us who returned there. 
She just didn't say it was any Slytherins. So this is a place where 
for me, there's no question: what's written in the book far trumps 
the author's mis-remembering of the event. (JKR also thought Colin's 
camera didn't work at Hogwarts when it did in canon.) I 

-m