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

[lizzyben04]

No: HPFGUIDX 179043

 > zgirnius:
> The sense in which people are saying he lied is that the 
Slytherins 
> did not physically join Voldemort - he was not accompanied by the 
> entire horde of young Slytherins, not did they fight for him. And, 
> this does seem to be what Voldemort means, because he contrasts 
the 
> other Slytherins' behavior with Draco's. 

lizzyben:

Sorry if this was already brought up, but if LV was lying, how would 
he know that Draco was still in the castle? The students evacuated 
to Aberforth's tavern right before the battle, & presumably went 
home from there. But LV is with Malfoy in the Shrieking Shack. If 
the evacuated Slytherin students didn't go over to his camp, how 
would LV know that Draco wasn't among them? He must have *seen* the 
evacuated Slytherin students in order to notice that Draco wasn't 
among them, which lends credence to his contention that they 
promptly headed over to the LV camp. In addition, his statement is 
never overturned or corrected in canon. So, LV says that the Slyth 
students came and joined him, it's supported by corraborating 
evidence, & it isn't contradicted or overturned later. I didn't 
think LV was lying. It seems almost, well, subversive to argue that 
he was.