Slytherins come back WAS: Re: My Most Annoying Character

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 180157

> 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?

Alla:

Nope. I say just as we can imagine that more rebel forces 
participated in that last battle than we saw. IMO of course.

Betsy Hp: 
> 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.

Alla:

Why not? What if this moment of same importance for JKR as 
Dumbledore knowing because of the spell what happened in DH? Very 
secondary one I mean.

To me it is clear that she showed that Slytherin is not all bad 
through individual stories. So she left it for us to fill in. To me 
it makes no difference whether they came or not, truly. I still 
think that their ideology is disgusting and dilution of such 
ideology is a good thing, but they are not all bad as individuals 
and here we go - some of them came.

And of course Phinelius' words as some people remarked make little 
or no sense if they did not. To me anyways.

Betsy Hp:
  (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.


Alla:

Or she does not feel a need to spell out every detail. I will stick 
with this one.

I would call her to task if she was writing a book called the story 
of Slytherins and left this moment that unclear. 

JMO,

Alla