Slytherins come back WAS: Re: My Most Annoying Character

[Zara]

No: HPFGUIDX 180220

> Magpie:
> And plenty more times when it doesn't, and this is one of them. The 
> reason the times when there's a turnaround work is that for the 
most 
> part the narrator is just telling us what's there, and if it looked 
> like something different than it was we see why/how. There was no 
> turnaround to this. Harry never learns he was wrong about who 
showed 
> up with Slughorn.

zgirnius:
Harry never expressed an opinion as to whether any Slytherins 
returned with Sluggie or not. I think he had things he considered 
more important on his mind, not to mention that if the returnees were 
not Blaise, Theo, or Pansy, Harry might not even *know* them from 
residents of Hogsemade, bless his oblivious little heart. Someone 
could be vaguely familiar to him from having been in Potions and CoMC 
with him for five years, or from being a shop assistant at Hogsmeade 
the last time he visited.

As Harry expressed no definitive opinions of the subject of whether 
Slytherins came back, it is not canon that he was "wrong", as you 
seem to suggest. Since he may not have been "wrong" there is no need 
to show he was.

Harry is shown having no surprise at Phineas's "Slytherins played a 
part", and he is shown as stating that the House is an acceptable one 
for his son to be Sorted into at a later date. So either he thinks 
Slytherins came back, or he thinks the presence of school aged 
Slytherins in the battle is irrelevant to him in judging the House in 
light of the actions of Regulus, Sluggie, Andromeda, and Snape (among 
others whose actions Harry may have an opinion about).

Either way, Our Hero has learned, like the Hat and the author 
suggested, that not all Slytherins are bad, and that the Houses must 
all play a part to defeat Voldemort.