Slytherin as villains / Ender vs. Harry SPOILERS for Ender's Game

[Carol]

No: HPFGUIDX 178974

Betsy Hp wrote:
<snip> 
> I'm sorry, but I just cannot get past the fact that when the big 
battle came Slytherin left and joined the enemy. <snip>

Carol responds;

But, Betsy, as we've tried to show you, this statement is not a
*fact.* It's your *interpretation*, and it appears to be a minority
view. There's no evidence to support the truth of the statement (it
could be one of many false statements made by characters that are
never directly contradicted) and all sorts of evidence that it may be
false. (I'm not saying that I'm right in my own interpretation, only
that you can't claim a point that can be argued against as a canon
"fact.") We do not see a single Slytherin student on the battlefield
or with the DEs in the Voldemort camp. Not one.

On a sidenote, if even the younger children supported the Dark Lord at
the risk of their own lives (a view that seems to contradict Phineas
Nigellus' view that Slytherins in general would put their own safety
first) wouldn't that make them brave and deluded rather than evil? But
since we don't see them fighting for either side and we do see them
evacuating, it's a moot point.

But I'm not arguing now, having already presented my arguments
upthread. I'm asking a question. If we could persuade you that
Voldemort was lying and that Slytherin did *not* fight on his side but
went to safety as McGonagall ordered (Draco, Crabbe, and Goyle
excepted), would you still hold the view that Slytherin is bad, bad,
bad (despite the changes in *Harry's* perspective post-Pensieve)?

Carol, just wondering how rethinking this one "fact" would affect your
perspective