Slytherins come back - Slytherin Perspective

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 180173

> 
> bboyminn:
> 
> What bothers me, and what I would like JKR to clear up, is
> that she opened the concept of the Houses joining together,
> then never followed through on it. I needed just the briefest
> reference to one student who saw Voldemort in charge as a
> bad thing. But it has to be a student. We have Slughorn and
> Snape as 'good Slytherins', but i needed a student, just one.

Pippin:
Regulus Black. If there is a Regulus in Harry's generation,
Harry would not know about him, for the same reason that
no one in Regulus's generation knew about Regulus. Regulus
hid the extent of his  work against Voldemort too well. 

Only if JKR gets around to writing about AS will we hear about
the Regulus of Harry's day. 

Harry had a hard enough time dealing with people from
other Houses who joined the DA for Slytherinish reasons;
he would never have accepted a Slytherin on that basis,
and the Slytherins have a lot of experience in knowing 
where they're not wanted. 

Bboy:
Voldemort in charge would have been an economic disaster, 
and any reasonably wise Slytherin would have known it. 

Pippin:
Economic disaster for some is always economic opportunity
for others. Sad to say, the confiscation of  Jewish-
owned property was a windfall for the average German and
the confiscation of Muggleborn property  would doubtless
have had a similar effect in the WW. If Muggleborn businesses
close, their customers will go elsewhere. Florian's ice
cream parlor was gone, but did anyone go without ice cream?
Not that we heard.

As for trading with Muggles, that was handled through the
goblins, who know that Voldemort and his servants keep
their treasure at Gringotts just like everyone else and won't
want things too disrupted, will they? 

There were plenty of Slytherins who disowned Voldemort
for Slytherinish reasons when it was safe to do so -- the
trouble is they rejoined him for the same Slytherinish
reasons when he returned. 

Pippin