Slytherins come back WAS: Re: My Most Annoying Character

[juli17 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 180151

 

M-

"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 "


 
Julie:
To be technical, the narrator did not state categorically that 
the group consisted only of relatives of students who stayed to
fight and shopkeepers. The narrator, speaking through Harry, said
"They *seemed* to have returned with what *looked like* the families
and friends...etc:
 
Both "seemed" and "what looked like" indicate that this is Harry's  best
guess upon his quick glance at the group. I agree if Harry immediately  saw
a Slytherin he recognized, like Blaise or Millicent, he would have stated 
so. But because he didn't see them or someone he recognized as being
a Slytherin or related to one doesn't mean they were not there. It may 
make the chances lesser, but the chance is still there, and it's these 
moments that are clearly part assumption in the books which allow us  to 
decide for ourselves exactly what is the "fact" of the matter.
 
For me, getting to deduce (and yes, choose), some of the  Slytherins and 
their 
families *did* come back, and were part of the Slytherins who did their  part
mentioned by Phineas. But that's my choice :-)
 
Julie 



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