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

[sistermagpie]

No: HPFGUIDX 179058

> Betsy Hp:
> Honestly, I think you're straining at details here.  We know 
Crabbe 
> and Goyle (and Draco as well) were doing something *for* 
Voldemort.  
> So they're not an example of a Slytherin not serving.  But we also 
> know that Draco is one student Voldemort knows pretty darn well.  
If 
> a herd of Slyhterins trooped over to his side, Voldemort would 
notice 
> Draco's absence far more than he'd notice Crabbe or Goyle's.
> 
> And finally, when is this statement of Voldemort's ever pointed to 
as 
> a lie by the text?  Harry doesn't think to himself, "But 
Voldemort's 
> lying because Crabbe and Goyle weren't there either!"  And he 
never 
> says, "But Voldemort's lying, I haven't seen one Slytherin student 
> fighting!"  Which, IMO, means that Voldemort wasn't lying, JKR 
never 
> meant for us to parse his statement to such depth, and as far as 
> she's concerned, Slytherin students of a certain age were fighting 
> alongside Voldemort.

Magpie:
Or they just obediently went to his camp to wait it out, which is 
bad enough. I don't think they even have to be fighting. Voldemort 
said to give up the castle and they did. Whether or not he uses them 
to fight against other students when he makes his entrance doesn't 
even matter. Pansy was choosing Voldemort's mercy in handing Potter 
over. 

-m