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

[prep0strus]

No: HPFGUIDX 178975


> Carol responds;
> 
> 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
>

Prep0strus:

As Besty's sometime-ally, sometime-polar opposite, I figure I'd answer
here as well... I would still hold that view.  Well, it might be a bit
strong - bad, bad, bad.  But certainly not good, not good, not good. 
My feelings stem more from my inability to see ANY presented Slytherin
as predominantly full of good qualities (as has been discussed ad
nauseum - I am fully aware that some people would bear Snape's
children, others think Slughorn is a kindly uncle, Regulus makes Robin
Hood and King Arthur look like selfish jerks, and St. Andromeda shines
with the light of her unverified Slytherinness).

It is not that event at the end that makes or breaks Slytherin. 
Slytherin has always been broken, and I don't see anything in the
story that makes me feel differently.  There are individual Slytherins
who have qualities that keep them from being evil, and who accomplish
good things, but I think their overwhelming personalities are odious,
and while theoretically I realize there are many, many other
Slytherins out there... in fiction, I actually need to see some of them.

~Adam (Prep0strus), who knows that delving back into this is probably
a mistake, but amused by how quickly he could find himself on the
other side of Betsy's argument, if it turns into a discussion on
whether Slytherin being all bad is actually a bad thing.