Disappointment Was: Deaths in DH WAS: Re: Dumbledore (but...

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prep0strus writes:

symbolically, i think jkr got mixed up, because she did inspire some sympathy and complexity in some slytherins.  but by never giving a likable or admirable slytherin, by making almost every evil deed performed performed by a slytherin, by making the values described by
slytherin to be distasteful values, and by not allowing true redemption or happiness or acceptance to come to any slytherin, she has created a far more powerful symbol of them being deservedly unworthy. i don't know if the mistake was not making them more equal or by not making them more one-sidedly evil, but something went amiss
for me, and my eventual conclusion is that they represent what is wrong in humanity, not the opportunity for change.


Robert:
 
 
I have to come out of lurkdom to disagree here. I believe it was stated that Sirius was the first Black not assigned to the house of Slytherin when he attended Hogwarts. That would mean all of his cousins WERE - including  Andromeda. We hear her mentioned throughout the last books of the series as the Black sister who was shunned by the family for marrying a Muggle born, and having a long and happy marriage, as well as a daughter who became an auror.   She was the example that not all Slytherins are bad and some can join the adult WW and choose their own path in life after being Slytherins in school. Bella tells Voldemort that she had no contact with Andromeda AFTER she married the Muggle-born. Before that particular offense they were on good  terms.  Also it doesn't state whether she became Sirius' favorite cousin before or after attending Hogwarts.  Maybe the example wasn't Draco, but does that have to mean no other example is acceptable?

For what it's worth, another lurker's opinion to chew up and spit  out......
 
Robert