Deathly Hallows Reaction - Could do Better, Sorry/ Slytherins po

[juli17 at aol.com]

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Alla:

What I do have some sort of problem with is the fact that there is 
still a Slytherin house at the end, and Hogwarts continues to supply 
new kids to be swallowed in this evil ideology every year.

That to me is just **bizarre**. Okay, House is evil, so be done with 
it if you do not want to redeem it (and again, I am fine with likes 
of  Malfoy, Crabbe and Goyle not being redeemed, oh and can please 
somebody strangle Pansy?), BUT to let new eleven year olds be gone 
there as it there is no hope for them?

I mean, had we even been told that Slytherin consists only of DE 
kids? Because if we are, then okay, I can buy that they are 
conditioned to follow the steps of their fathers from the early 
years, but what if somebody whose parents are not DE gets in 
Slytherin?

I mean, what if some little one is just very ambitious? That is it? 
All hope is gone for him or her? We had not been told that all kids 
who are in Slytherins get sorted for blood and ambition, right? It 
could be one or another, no?

And even if they are sons and daughters of DE, why not to try to make 
them see that ideology is evil?

All hope is gone for them? For all of them? At eleven years of age?

Julie:

Exactly. In another thread somoeone asked what questions we would put
to JKR during the interview she's doing on the 30th(?). This is far 
and away the most important question to me, given I consider the way
she handled--or did not handle--this issue to be the only serious flaw
in the book.

Why, Jo, why do you think its acceptable to judge 11 year old children
as too far gone to do anything but toss them together in the dungeons and
let their selfish, hateful traits fester into full-blown evil? Heck, why
not just follow the example of the movie "Minority Report" and toss them
into Azkaban now, thus avoiding their bad (and for some ultimately evil)
traits from eventually staining the other more noble denizens of the WW?
And yes, I do realize we're talking about a story, which doesn't reflect Jo's
feelings about real schools in the real world, but given that she hinted
so often *in* the story that the Houses needed to join together to resolve
their differences, and to ultimately defeat Voldemort, it's a real mystery
why it so blatantly DIDN'T happen in DH.

Julie 



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