Slytherins come back WAS: Re: My Most Annoying Character

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 180165

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> 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.  (The accusation I'm 
> leveling, actually <g>.)

Pippin:
But this is only an issue at all because you've set up an artificial
distinction between Slytherin students and Slughorn. It's Slughorn
who speaks for the  Slytherins when he says resistance is suicide
(just like Han Solo in Star Wars IV <g>) and so it's Slughorn 
whose return makes the "I knew there was more to you than..." 
point. If we'd heard from Theo or Blaise  separately then it would
be an issue whether they'd come back or not, but we didn't. 

If you consider all of JKR's comments on Slytherin it certainly
seems that ambiguity is  the whole point -- you can't generalize
about them. Some of them are certainly warped, but the qualities
that make it easy for them to make bad choices are also necessary
for survival and not just for Slytherins: where would the WW be without
resourcefulness, determination, a certain disregard for rules and
the desire to preserve itself?

Pippin