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

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> lizzyben:> 
> And even if LV did notice somehow that other students are missing, 
> it's not relevant to the conversation. The conversation is about 
> Draco, & LV tells Lucius that Draco didn't join him with the other 
> evacuated Slytherins, and so is still in danger during the battle. 
> Lucius doesn't care about Crabbe, Goyle, etc. So, I'd consider it 
> plausible if some other Slytherin students didn't join LV's camp. 
> But I think it's *most* plausible that the evacuated Slytherin kids 
> did join his camp. That's corraborated by LV's statement, 
supporting 
> evidence, & the lack of any reversal in this information by the end 
> of the novel. Really, the only reason to think it's not true is 
that 
> we'd hate to think that every Slytherin child joined LV's side. 


Potioncat:
I'm joining late, and I've read some, but by no means all of the 
posts in this thead. So...sorry if this point has been brought up or 
even worked to death.

I agree with Lizzyben (and others) that LV's main goal is to torment 
Lucius. The point is, Draco isn't here. He could be dead.

LV says Draco didn't join him like the rest of the Slytherins. But, 
rest of the Slytherins doesn't have to mean all of the Slytherins. 
And we know that at least 2 other Slytherins aren't there.

My son is in a Scout troop made up of boys from different schools. So 
if I ask him "Were all the Cardinal Forest boys there?" I don't mean 
all 60 or so boys who attend CFES, but all the boy scouts who are 
from CFES. So "rest of the Slytherins" would mean those Slytherins 
who were DEs or DE connected or even, that clump of Slytherin 
students who did show up.

My real point has nothing to do with whether LV is telling a lie; but 
rather whether there's hope that some Cough**Theo**cough didn't join 
LV.

Pretty much, Slytherin House appears as the villain after DH. I'm not 
sure if JKR intended that, or if the bigger picture became blurry 
while she worked on the smaller details. In an interview she had 
stated that not all Slytherins had DE ties, and that some students 
from other houses did have DE ties. If she really intended that, she 
didn't show it.