Alchemy, the Epilogue and Slytherin (long)

[hickengruendler]

No: HPFGUIDX 176683

 
> Julie wrote:
> It would have been more balanced if even *one* Slytherin had used 
his/her
> traits toward something good. Snape used what is commonly considered
> a Gryffindor trait, courage, to prove his (relative) goodness. 
(Cunning may
> have come into it a bit--for instance Snape punishing the Gryffs in 
DH by
> sending them to the Forbidden Forest--but both Dumbledore and Harry
> note that Snape's *best* trait was his un-Slytherinish courage.) 
Regulus
> also used courage, and loyalty to another--Kreacher, also not standard
> Slytherin traits.
 
Hickengruendler:

Harry used Slytherin traits quite often, most notably, when he got the 
memory from Slughorn. Admittingly, he isn't a Slytherin, but what he 
used to get this memory certainly wasn't Gryffindor courage. Same for 
Dumbledore, who has Slytherin traits and used them as well, so did 
Hermione, when she got rid of Umbridge.

And I think Snape had to be very cunning, to make Voldemort believe in 
his status as an agent for Voldie's side. Yes, he had to be brave as 
well, but this task could not have been done by someone, who is just 
brave and not cunning.