Pleasant surprise

[Irene Mikhlin]

No: HPFGUIDX 177887

Since our discussions of Slytherin House tend to debate two positions mostly - whether Slytherins are really that rotten or whether JKR just painted them in such bad light that no child reader would be able to see them as a legitimate part of Hogwarts - I thought the following might be of interest for some listees.

My daugher, 11, finished the 7th book yesterday and we talked a bit. She said she'd want to be in Slytherin (we've never had much discussions about Harry Potter before, she is nowhere near as obsessed as I am). So I asked why, and here is her reasoning verbatim:

"They are cool and ambitious. They know what they want and just go after it. So what if there were some bad kids sorted there, doesn't mean there is something wrong with the whole house". 

So it seems even if JKR tried to give them bad PR, it didn't work completely. :-) In her mind Death Eaters and Slytherin are completely separate.

Oh, and I asked where does she thinks Albus Severus is going to be sorted. The answer was: "Gryffindor, of course! He is a Potter, duh." So make what you will out of it.

Irene