Slytherins come back WAS: Re: My Most Annoying Character

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 180242


> > Magpie:
> > 
> > Albus Severus will certainly have to find out what 
> > Slytherin means for himself by actually going to Hogwarts, but I 
> > don't see any indication in this scene that he'll have to become
any more enlightened than Ron is.
> > 
> > Pippin:
> > Ah, now I see it. So, Harry should have pushed Albus to make the
> > enlightened choice and go into Slytherin, not because Albus wanted 
> > to, but for the greater good? I really think Harry had had enough
> > of that. 

Lealess: 
> *Scratches head*  A person agrees that Al will have to find out for 
> himself about Slytherin/cooties.  A person offers an opinion that
the  Epilogue does not contain hope of enlightenment about Slytherin 
House.  Where does Harry pushing Albus to go into Slytherin come into
 it? 

Pippin:
It comes in with the idea that something should  be done
so that Albus would "have to" become more enlightened than Ron is.


I may have misunderstood what that meant, but I thought my
interpretation was straightforward: Albus must become more
enlightened, not by his own wishes, because we agree that's not what
he wants, but  for some reason which outweighs Albus's opinion of what
is good.  

I disagree that there's no hope that Albus will change his views about
Slytherin because I see Harry as having changed his own views drastically.

But maybe that's what it boils down to; because I agree if I didn't
perceive any change in Harry's views of Slytherin the book would lose
much of its impact for me. But it certainly never occurred to Harry
prior to DH that a Slytherin could be braver than any Gryffindor Harry
ever knew. 

Harry  presents to Albus  a more informed view of Slytherin than Harry
had. No one bothered to tell Harry  about the "noble history" and
"outstanding witches and wizards" that McGonagall said Slytherin had
produced. Harry wouldn't have put any Slytherin in that category prior
to DH, except in the sense that Ollivander said Voldemort was great.  

For whatever reason it's not enough for Al. And Harry, the grown up,
lets Al  know that he and the Hat will respect his choice.  What else
should Harry do? IMO, giving people choices includes giving them the
right to make bad ones. YMMV. 


Pippin