Slytherins come back WAS: Re: My Most Annoying Character/Now Rowling's control

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> >>Magpie:
> > The moment just doesn't read as ambiguous to me in any way.

> >>Carol:
> Not *to you*, but it does read as ambiguous to others. ("Seemed" is 
> a clue that what Harry thinks he sees isn't necessarily accurate.
> Remember "They didn't see what they thought they saw," Sirius       
> Black's description of his "murdering" the Muggles and Pettigrew?   
> Remember the Hufflepuffs thinking they saw Harry egging the        
> conjured snake on to Justin? Remember Harry seeing Snape "murder"   
> Dumbledore and DD pleading for his life?

Betsy Hp:
Yeah.  I also remember the very clear cut, unambiguous reveals.  
Where is the big reveal showing us that the folks Harry thought were 
adults were actually fellow students as well?

> >>Carol:
> One of the themes of the books is that what appears to be true,    
> including what Harry perceives to be true, isn't necessarily true.
> <snip>

Betsy Hp:
See, and again, this is where discussions pile up.  Because I 
honestly don't think this was a theme at all.  Harry was, for the 
most part, right about everything.  Rather than Harry learning that 
his first instinct was probably wrong, he learns that his first 
instinct is usually right.  Only birds of his particular feather can 
be full on trusted.

Slytherins returning to the fight would have been a massive shock to 
Harry because it would have shown an old, comfortable prejudice of 
his to be wrong.  *We never get that scene*.  As far as Harry is 
concerned, Slytherin students attempted to betray him, left the 
school, joined Voldemort, and that's it.  We never get a scene where 
Harry realizes Voldemort was lying or that his quick glance at 
Slughorn's group was misleading or that Slytherins were bullied out 
by McGonagall.

I think you're identifying a gun (she used "seems") that never 
actually goes off.  Or if it did, it was a tired little whimper that 
our hero never picks up on.

Betsy Hp