Slytherins come back WAS: Re: My Most Annoying Character

[horridporrid03]

No: HPFGUIDX 180156

> >>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.
> <snip>
> 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.
> <snip>
> 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 :-)

Betsy Hp:
Okay.  Just like I can assume that in "The Empire Strikes Back" when 
Vader says "join with me" Luke said "sure!", and what we see in the 
movie is actually a Jedi mind trick Vader used to confuse the 
audience?

Because, this strikes me as a similar thing.  Slytherins returning to 
fight *against* Voldemort shouldn't be something the reader has to 
either guess at or read so deeply between the lines one risks the 
accusation of making things up whole cloth.  (The accusation I'm 
leveling, actually <g>.)  If this *is* what JKR meant to have happen 
than she's a crap writer for making it so impossibly unclear.  If 
it's *not* what JKR meant to have happen, then she's just a very 
strange interviewee.

Betsy Hp