Lack of Slytherins banner in ROR and Slytherins in the final battle.

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 178797

> > Alla:
>  
> > Another Hogwarts professor walks in the shadows and dies the 
death of 
> > the spy, playing his part in the plan that brings Voldemort's 
demise.
> 
> Potioncat:
> That is a very beautiful way of describing Snape....honestly Alla, 
I 
> would never have expected it of you!   ;-)

Alla:

The new canon has a strangest effects on us ;)

 
Alla: 
> > And Hogwarts student from Slytherin dies while fighting Voldemort.
> 
> Potioncat:
> But here, I'm confused. Who was this? Or do you mean Regulus?
>

Alla:

Regulus, yes, I do not think that the fact that he is dead means that 
his contribution should count as less significant, you know :)


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "pippin_999" <foxmoth at ...> 
wrote:
<SNIP>
> If Regulus sacrificing his life for his House Elf, Slughorn dueling 
with 
> Voldemort, and Snape keeping his cover to the death are not proof
> of good Slytherins, I have to say you're setting the bar for being a
> good Slytherin awfully high. I sure haven't done anything like that,
> and I'd like to think I'm a good person.


Alla:

I have an idea. :) How about we forget about the words "good 
Slytherin" for a second and just limit ourselves to Slytherins who 
actively participated in an antivoldemort resistance.

And if we are limiting ourselves to that issue, I find it mind 
boggling that "current students of Slytherin" not participating in 
the fight against Voldemort suddenly equals "Slytherin" does not 
participating in the fight.

Not when those stories stand out to me so much, sorry. I see three 
heroes here and Slytherin still does not count?


I just had another revelation. Maybe argument is that unless 
Slytherins participate in exactly same way as other houses, they do 
not participate at all? Not stating, just wondering.

Well, I never argued that Slytherin House current students will 
participate the very same way. I have never seen the hidden goodness 
of the Slytherins.

Slytherin House IS starting with lower footing than other houses IMO, 
but the examples of those three maybe show that indeed not everybody 
in Slytherin was corrupted by that evil ideology, even though indeed 
many of the students are?

Maybe with those three JKR did show me their goodness?

And that people should be judged on individual basis and not on the 
basis of to which house they belong.

Because no matter how you look at it, the next hero I want to applaud 
and cry for after Harry ( And Ron and Hermione for helping him) is 
not Dumbledore is not Lupin, is not Tonks, is not even Mad eye, no 
matter how brave they are.

The hero whom I cry for is the boy who went to die from poison and by 
Inferi for his house elf and this IS a Slytherin boy.

And the character whose development I find most striking is none else 
but Slughorn.

And no matter how much I hate Snape for allowing himself to hate a 
boy of the woman he loved, he did die as a hero, no?

I mean, I do disagree with you Pippin on the part of McGonagall being 
wrong here, I think she made the only possible decision under 
circumstances.

BUT I also think that given a chance maybe some Slytherin students 
would have stayed.

Oh, no I think that Slytherin house's contribution was very 
significant IMO.

And maybe because of that the current students had had a chance to 
turn their lives around, etc.

JMO

Alla