Slytherins come back

[Pippin]

No: HPFGUIDX 180243

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Carol" wrote:
> 
> Let's look first at what she actually wrote:
> 
> ". . . Harry saw Charlie Weasley overtaking Horace Slughorn, who 
was
> still wearing his emerald pajamas. They seemed to have returned at 
the
> head of what looked like the families and friends of every Hogwarts
> student who had remained to fight, along with the shopkeepers and
> homeowners of Hogsmeade" (DH 734).

Pippin Fowler:
I had no impression from what I read that any Slytherins other than 
Slughorn came back. We do know from canon that several Slytherins 
are clearly from Death Eater families. My inference from that was 
that other Slytherins also were either directly related to Death 
Eaters or certainly would not suddenly turn over a new leaf and come 
back to fight against others of their house. It seems more likely 
that Slytherins would have simply stayed under cover, since neither 
side of the Hogwarts battle was a safe haven.

I also did not see Slughorn as having much influence over the older 
Slytherin students who had been led by Snape during most of their 
time at Hogwarts. Slughorn was hired by Dumbledore, with Harry's 
influence, and Slughorn treated Harry well in his classes.

If JKR intended to portray a Slytherin defence of Hogwarts, there 
was plenty of evidence to the contrary that she needed to explicitly 
overcome. It is nowhere in canon that I can see.

Pippin