Mostly on Slytherin

[Dracojadon]

No: HPFGUIDX 172826

This is _just_ in response to things people have mentioned (or I'll  
get carried away):

Slytherin is revealed to be the worst anyone had ever thought of  
them; they are _all_ DE sympathisers, rather than a minority clique.  
I'd become rather attached to this house, thinking we were being  
shown the worst of it, not, apparently, the best.

Slytherin's behaviour at the defeat of LV certainly sets the scene  
for the prejudice in the epilogue, but -- I didn't believe they'd do  
that. Instead we're told, everything ever rumoured about Slytherin  
was true.

It's not even possible to make excuses for them, after Pansy  
screeched that they should hand over Potter, and the entire house  
deserted the school. We've been told Slytherin is a nasty bunch of  
evil-minded cowards -- if they weren't in some agreement with LV  
they'd stay, because it doesn't get much more obvious that Harry's  
going to win than this.

Snape has a different opinion of his house (reacting to Dumbledore's  
saying he could almost have been in Gryffindor), but we are shown  
_nothing_ to back it up. What can we believe? We are drenched in the  
relentless glorification of Gryffindor. There's no way out.

And then James and Sirius are revealed to be 'Draco-ish', as someone  
else put it, from their first day up until at least the end of their  
fifth year. Lily objects (Bloomsbury p.540) to something Mulciber  
tried to do to Mary McDonald (Snape, not at all to his credit, calls  
it 'a laugh'), but lets off the Marauders (who aren't very nice  
people to be around, especially if you're Snape) by saying at least  
they're not using Dark Magic.

In JKR's world there is something intrinsic in certain spells that  
makes them evil in themselves (*accepts this*), but doesn't the way  
you use them count for anything at all? The behaviour of the  
Marauders isn't okay just because they aren't using spells classified  
as dark: it's okay, in JKR's head, because they're in Gryffindor.

And I didn't think she was going to do that to her world.

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Question: Did Xenophilius Lovegood blast the Erumpent horn  
intentionally?

Jadon