Slytherins/Krum are/are not Jews.../The Houses Again

[Renee]

No: HPFGUIDX 173656

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "sistermagpie"
<sistermagpie at ...> wrote:
>


>> Renee:
> but having primarily their own interest in
> mind and/or agreeing with the prejudices of their House, they would
> have lacked the incentive to go against him until something happened
> that shook them to the core. They weren't raised/predisposed do do so
> in principle - and that had nothing to do with Voldemorts influence on
> Slytherin House.
> 
> Magpie:
> Basically that would make them cowards, which in this universe is one 
> of the worst things you could be. Plenty of students in other houses 
> also had reason to fear that kind of retribution, but they fought 
> anyway. Being afraid wasn't really an excuse. Everybody's afraid.
> 
Renee:
I wasn't talking about fear of retribution. What I was trying to say
was that their upbringing and their outlook on life did not predispose
them to truly see the evil in Voldemort, or to go against it. Not
because they were necessarily cowards, but because they just didn't
feel too strongly about the issue to fight. 

Regulus was no coward, he just wasn't aware of any good reasons to go
against Voldemort before the Kreacher episode. This opened his eyes,
and he showed plenty of courage then. Maybe Slughorn was a coward, but
he came around eventually. I'm not sure about Narcissa, but coward is
not the first epithet that springs to mind when I think of her. 

Renee