Andromeda as good Slytherin WAS: Disappointment

[sistermagpie]

No: HPFGUIDX 177597

> > Carol responds:
> >
> > True, we do have no evidence that Andromeda was a Slytherin other
> than
> > her cousin Sirius's comment, but there's no counterevidence. As for
> > "characters you write yourself," we don't have to do that with
> Andromeda.
> > <SNIP>

Magpie:
If you say that Andromeda married a Muggle-born and was a Black and 
left her family, you're sticking to canon. You want anything more 
detailed about what that was like or what she's like, you're filling it 
in yourself. 

But whether she's "good" or not is that the point. We know she left her 
family to marry a Muggle-born, and that she's Tonks and Ted in getting 
Harry out of the house. She's not a bad guy. (Of course, neither are 
some of the other Slytherins Adam mentioned.) However, she is still 
barely on the page and that is why she doesn't seem like a real good 
symbol for any hope or sign about Slytherin one way or another. (I've 
read posts on this list that argued that if we are given information 
that isn't contradicted that *doesn't* mean we have to take it as 
canon.)

BuBut this isn't about whether Andromeda really left her family for a 
Muggle-born or not. That pretty much seem accepted as canon by 
everyone. The disagreement is over whether a character this tiny can 
really carry this much weight. Even if you want to make her the poster 
child for how Slytherin's going to change at some point after 19 years 
after we've met her, she still can't tell you about how it could 
happen, because we don't really know the story.  

-m