Who are the Good Slytherins? was Re: Further Notes on Literary Uses of Magic

[pippin_999]

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> Alla:
> 
> My question is again **who** are they? Forget about Draco Malfoy for 
> a second and tell me which Slytherin kids you met that are not bad. 
> I understand that certainly realistically there are good kids there, 
> they just have to be. But where are they in the book? Whom else do 
> we meet but DE kids?

Pippin:
They are the ones who stood to drink to Harry in GoF. We know that
Malfoy, Crabbe, Goyle and many of the other Slytherins refused.
 But not all of them. We don't know the refusers by name,
but then we don't even know two of the Gryffindors in Harry's own
year.  

As for whom we've met, Blaise, Pansy, Marcus Flint, Adrian Pucey, 
Bletchley and Terrence Higgs do not have DE fathers, AFAWK, and 
that's just from the first book, I suppose there are more. 

As far as I know, none of the above have done anything terrible. 
They play a rough game of Quidditch, and Flint took part in 
trying to distract Harry, but as for thinking that a phony 
dementor would make him fall off his broom, c'mon.

They were all on the train with Harry, they know what a real
dementor feels like, and any kid older than eight who thinks
they could produce an effect like that just by putting on a 
costume would be as cracked as Moody's old Foe-glass.

We also know that the kids in Draco's compartment scarcely dream 
of joining Voldemort. Doubtless they expect that everyone 
will have to join Voldemort if he wins, but I don't see
any of them except Draco plotting to bring that about. When
Draco boasts of his secret mission, who offers to help?
Crabbe and Goyle don't seem like  eager  volunteers.


Pippin