[HPforGrownups] Re: Slytherin as villains / Ender vs. Harry SPOILERS for Ender's Game

[Random832]

No: HPFGUIDX 179095

>>>> zgirnius:
>> If you and Betsy can have your
>> masked, unidentified, unmentioned, effectively invisible Slytherins 
>> of a certain age fighting for Voldemort in the battle, some other   
>> reader can have his or her anonymous Slytherins of a certain age   
>> who came back with Sluggie and the large crowd of reinforcements   
>> after helping the young 'uns get away).
> 
> Betsy Hp:
> No Zara, they can't.

Random832:
Then neither can you, is all she was saying.

Betsy Hp:
> In fanfic?  Sure.  But to argue that *within* 
> the text there's an unremarked Slytherin who comes back and fights 
> for Hogwarts is insupportable because there is no text supporting it.

Random832:
There's also no text contradicting it. There's no text supporting any 
slytherin students on either side of the battle, and it's highly 
unlikely that it would have been unmentioned (much less so than DD being 
gay going unmentioned, since the actions of the slytherin students is 
highly relevant to the story, and DD's orientation not so much). Ergo, 
canon is that they left and never looked back.

Betsy Hp:
> What we don't have mentioned within 
> the text is anything to suggest Voldemort's statement about that was 
> a lie.

Random832:
Nothing, of course, except for the facts that [A] Voldemort is a 
notorious liar, and [B] at least part of his statement (viz. Crabbe and 
Goyle, "the rest of" the Slytherins) was demonstrably false.

--Random832