Dark Book

[Carol]

No: HPFGUIDX 177032

lizzyben wrote:
> <snip>
> Carol, where's the canon? We can all come to conclusions about 
> what we think Harry or Albus Severus would do in the future, but the 
> epilogue & text is all we've got to go on. In the epilogue, good guy 
> Ron is *still* talking about how he doesn't like Slyths & his 
> daughter better not marry a pure-blood like Scorpius. James Jr. 
> seems like a bully-in-training, tormenting his brother w/the threat 
> of Slytherin damnation, etc. We can *hope* that they find friendship 
> instead of enmity, but there's really no indication that'll happen.
<snip>

Carol responds:
Happy to oblige.

James Potter to Sirius black at age eleven: "Who wants to be in
Slytherin? I think I'd leave, wouldn't you?" (DH Am. ed. 670)),
virtually the same words that Draco Malfoy says to Harry regarding
Hufflepuff in SS/PS.

Harry Potter at 37 to Albus *Severus* Potter, age eleven, in response
to "what if I'm in Slytherin?":

"--then Slytherin House will have gained and excellent student, won't
it? It doesn't matter to us" (758).

It *doesn't matter* to his Gryffindor parents whether he's placed in
Gryffindor or not. It's okay to be in Slytherin, the house to which
the bravest man Harry ever knew belonged.

Regarding Scorpius Malfoy, it's Ron, not Harry, who teasingly tells
his daughter to beat Scorpius in every test and then jokes about Rosie
marrying him--hardly a topic that would have come up regarding Draco
and Hermione.

And Hermione says, "Ron, for heaven's sake. don't try to turn them
[Scorpius and Rosie] against each other before they've even started
school!" (756).

Sounds like quite a change to me.

Carol, who thinks it's also significant that James Potter starts out
as a bully and that we're supposed to contrast his lifelong prejudice
against Slytherin with the tolerance of his enlightened son