Slytherins come back WAS: Re: My Most Annoying Character

[e2fanbev]

No: HPFGUIDX 180187

> Magpie:

> I don't think it's even that complicated--Slughorn=Slughorn, just
as
> any character=themselves. Slughorn might be fat, but he doesn't
> encompass all the students in his house. The line is describing a
> perfectly straightforward thing: Slughorn is running at the head,
and
> behind him are shopkeepers and parents of non-Slytherin students
who
> stayed. <SNIP>

Bev:

You are ignoring the FRIENDS.
The book says Slughorn is leading the families, FRIENDS and the
shopkeepers and homeowners of the village. Who else would the friends
be if not of-age Slytherin students following their head of house?

Any underage children of the Hogsmeade shopkeepers and homeowners
would be students at Hogwarts, over age children would be off earning
a living or continuing their studies, training for careers, and part
of the adult village population.
Draco and his clique were extreme in their views and did not bother
to make friends outside their house, but we saw by the intermingling
of students of each house as boy/girlfriends that not all students
felt that way. Interhouse friendships or acquaintances formed.
IMO I don't see any reason why it cannot be assumed Slughorn brought
some of his of-age students back with him to fight with their friends
who stayed behind-- alongside any of-age Hufflepuffs or Ravenclaws
who had a change of mind. Harry doesn't mention them by name in the
crowd either but it doesn't mean they weren't there. He saw friends
of the students who stayed behind and they could be from all houses
including Slytherin.

IMO,
Bev