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

[potioncat]

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> 
> Carol responds:
> Are you picturing a whole horde of Slytherins leaving the Hog's Head
> to fight in the battle? Why would they do that, when the whole point
> of evacuating everybody to the Hog's Head (including underage 
students
> from all houses, none of whom are being labeled as cowards) was to
> allow them to go to safety? If they wanted to go home to their beds
> (and they probably did), it would be counterproductive to go onto 
the
> battlefield, which would mean leaving the Hog's Head and going all 
the
> way to the gates and from there to the school--a long walk, as we 
know
> from all the Hogsmeade visits. 

Potioncat:
Actually, it would be even farther. The DEs are camped at Aragog's 
lair. That was a pretty long walk into the Forbidden Forest after 
getting back to the castle. Although, it doesn't seem as long in DH 
as it was in CoS. How would the Slytherins know where the DEs were? 
Harry had to follow two DEs to the site. We know that some form of 
communication is possible with the Dark Mark, but we don't know if 
any of the Slytherins have the Mark. Oh shoot. These students could 
just Apparate...but I'll bet that not all of them are good at it yet.

McGonagall's purpose for evacuating students was to get them out of 
danger, and obviously to remove any enemies. Of the of-age students 
who chose to leave we have half of Gryffindor, a little more 
Hufflepuffs, even more Ravenclaws and all of the Slytherins. The 
Slytherins left because they did not want to fight for Harry and St. 
Cripin. Well, come to think of it, that's why the others left.

Aberforth comes into the castle as the battle is starting and 
comments that children of DEs were sent to safety. Slughorn doesn't 
return till after the first battle. He's with Charley, leading a new 
wave of fighters. (Hogsmeade folk, and parents of those who remained 
behind.) So we can imagine that Horace saw to it that Slytherin 
students were "sent to safety" whatever that means and by whatever 
process. 

As far as I'm concerned, we don't know where the Slytherins went. 
Some may have gone to LV, I'd guess most went home. So we still don't 
know what LV really meant by the "rest of the Slytherins." But I'd 
think only those Slytherins who had already been inducted into the 
DEs would have been able to join LV.
> 
> Carol:
 (Potioncat,
> does this mean that Theo Nott got sent home, along with all the 
other
> Slytherins except Draco and Co.? I think it does.)

Potioncat:
Yes, in my earlier post I didn't mean I hoped he fought for Hogwarts, 
I just hope he didn't join LV.
> 
Carol:
 It would have been sheer idiocy to
> return to fight for either side once they'd been evacuated. The 
whole
> *point* was to get to safety. And that means getting *out* of
> Hogwarts, taking the invisible passageway to the Hog's Head, where
> Voldemort could not possibly have seen them.

Potioncat:
Well, if the person who returns to fight is on your side, you 
consider it sheer courage. ;-)

 
> Carol, who thought she was done with this subject but could not 
ignore
> such a glaring error

Potioncat who never expected to join this thread and isn't at all 
sure which side she just supported.