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

[horridporrid03]

No: HPFGUIDX 179087

> >>Betsy Hp wrote:
> > <snip>
> > I'd also like to clarify (because you've been attempting to back 
> > me into a postion I'm not actually holding <g>) that I'm not     
> > saying the masked fighters *must* be Slytherin students (that'd   
> > be in the fanfic realm as well, I think).  I'm saying that by    
> > having people fight for Voldemort who go unnamed and even        
> > undescribed lessens the argument that we can tell who was        
> > actually fighting for Voldemort via a roll call.  We simply don't 
> > know.

> >>Carol responds:
> Where would the Slytherin students have obtained Death Eater masks 
> on such short notice?
> <snip>

Betsy Hp:
Doesn't this seem to be entering the realm of the ridiculous?  I 
don't know, Carol.  Maybe they're magic masks that pop into being 
when two Death Eaters smash their marks together and cry "Death Eater 
Masks! Initiate!"

But if that's all you've got to suggest that Voldemort's words to 
Lucius were a lie that JKR meant for her readers to catch, I think 
you're scraping the bottom of the barrel, IMO.  Unless specific text 
challenges it, I think we're going to have to go with Voldemort's 
word.  As far as Voldemort is concerned, Slytherins joined with him.  

What that means, I don't know.  Maybe they just gave him their best 
Slytherin cheer before he headed out to storm the castle.  But we do 
know Voldemort was feeling pretty positive about Slytherin throughout 
that last battle.  So he didn't feel his old house betrayed him.

> >>Carol, who thinks that if a single Slytherin student had been    
> present in the DE camp or in the battle, JKR would have informed    
> us, just as she informed us of the whereabouts of the only known   
> student DE, Draco, and his two pro-Voldemort cronies

Betsy Hp:
And I'm just as sure that if JKR wanted us readers to come away from 
the text thinking House Slytherin had stood against Voldemort in the 
end, she'd have told us so.  She didn't, ergo they didn't, ergo sweet 
young Al didn't want anything to do with that horrid house.

Betsy Hp