Andromeda as good Slytherin WAS: Disappointment

[sistermagpie]

No: HPFGUIDX 177567

> Alla:
>
> I do not know about you, but **I** know enough about Andromeda to
> convince me that she is one of the examples of good Slytherins. For
> the secondary character of course.
>
> She, the daughter of pureblood family, child in Slytherin ( I agree
> with Robert, I never doubted that it means that all Sirius cousins
> were in Slytherins for same reason as he, IMO of course) left home
> and married muggleborn.
>
> This action tells me a lot about Andromeda right there. That she
> puts love ahead of any pureblood values.
>
> And she brought up Tonks. Seems to me that mother who brought up
> daughter like that cannot be bad as a person either.

Magpie:
Sorry, hit send too soon.

That's the great thing about characters you write yourself. They can
be whatever you imagine them to be.

To me it's a bit of a disappointment that she didn't choose to take
the one Slytherin characters of this generation and show him learning
to perhaps reject Pureblood values (he puts love ahead of them,
presumably, since his love for his family seems to be his defining
trait). Draco no longer seems so driven by Pureblood values in HBP.
He just doesn't cross over that last Slytherin hump. 

Lots of Slytherins put love over Pureblood values. They do crazy 
things for love. They seem to be able to do this without necessarily 
getting to the level of good people. And of course the other problem 
is that if they get too far away from this stuff, they get rejected 
by their house. It's like using Dobby as an example for House Elves 
wanting their freedom. Yeah, he's an example of one who did, but he 
really is some sort of oddity in the end and not the way of the 
future as far as we see. Andromeda's rejected; Snape keeps his 
feelings secret. Slughorn is the one example of a "good-ish" 
Slytherin who remains a Slytherin, but he's not very admirable at all.

Andromeda could have been a nasty Slytherin who turned out to have a 
heart of gold different from any other Slytherin we've seen before, 
or even a flawed person who was still just as good as other heroes. 
Or she could have been somebody thoroughly unlikable who had a 
passion that ruled her and she was willing to leave her family over 
it while still never being somebody Harry would actually like the way 
he likes her husband and daughter right off. And that's assuming 
she's Slytherin based on Sirius' comment. 

-m