Slytherin as villains

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Potioncat:
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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.



Alla:

AH. But this is a different angle IMO and I basically agree with you, 
sort of. I totally agree that whether or not they actually joined 
Voldemort, Slytherin HOUSE as an entity appears to be a villanous one.

As I totally thought they would at the end. Notice that I say HOUSE, 
not the people in it. HOUSE with the poisonous ideology, I did not 
think will be anything other than villain.

But House is just that, a basically mirage, is it not?

I thought that it was brilliantly done when JKR made a point of 
Slytherins leaving, whom we basically did not even get to meet 
through the story ( well, except Draco of course) and when she showed 
individuals Slytherins IMO that they are decent, etc.

JMO,

Alla