Slytherins come back WAS: Re: My Most Annoying Character

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No: HPFGUIDX 180624

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<montavilla47 at ...> wrote:

Montavilla47:
A crowd of people that are specified as being the families of students
who were fighting in the castle and shopkeepers from Hogsmeade.  Had
JKR wanted to clue us in that the crowd included the Slytherin
students who had left, she could have said, "leading a crowd that
looked like the families of the fighting students, shopkeepers, and a
few of Slytherins who had left earlier."
 
Had it been me, I might have added for good measure, "Harry thought 
he recognized a tall, weedy Slytherin as someone he'd taken class with 
for six years, but it was hard to tell without the school uniform."

Steph:
I realize I'm jumping into this really late in the game, but it
occurred to me that JKR *might* have written that Slytherins came back
and it got cut in editing.  I think there have been a couple other
incidences of her remembering something she wrote, only to recall
later that it didn't end up in the final version of the book.  I know
I'm giving her the benefit of the doubt, but as we know her memory is
rather faulty and therefore this might have been the actual scenario.

I too read between the lines that some Slytherins came back, based on
Phineas Nigellus's comment.