Villain!Dumbledore (was: re:HatingDH/Dementors/...Draco/.../KeepSlytherin Ho

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 177792

 
> Prep0strus:
> I take your point, and hers, but then I think she failed even more at
> her objective.  She can say they're not all like that, but why didn't
> she show us any who weren't?  

Pippin:
Perhaps she wants to show us that when you're getting your
information through distorted media, being a liberal
requires as much faith as any religion that asks you to believe
in the invisible. When the reporter is biased, the media will
reflect that. If you only knew about black people from the
newspapers I read in my youth, you would think they only
existed to cause trouble -- which is much the impression
Harry and the narrator give you of Slytherin House.


Harry doesn't *notice* the Slytherins when they're being good,
and it suits JKR's purpose not to contradict that impression 
except in subtle ways, like having some Slytherins stand to
honor Harry, or coo over the baby unicorns.  Theodore Nott 
never does anything obnoxious, and so from Harry's pov
he barely exists. 

random832:
The statements many of us have latched onto - which, i can't find right
now - are those of her being "shocked" that people in RL identify with
Slytherin as the house they would be in / want to be in.

Pippin:
Somebody may have picked up a Quick Quotes Quill by mistake <g>.

If the quote about identifying (actually, "feel their spiritual home")
is the one about her visit  to a chatroom,  the word she used was 
'concerned' and the whole passage is broadly tongue-in-cheek anyway. 

http://www.jkrowling.com/textonly/en/news_view.cfm?id=63

Pippin