[HPforGrownups] Re: Realistic Resolutions - WAS: Slytherins come back

[IreneMikhlin]

No: HPFGUIDX 180727

a_svirn wrote:

> 
> a_svirn:
> But if they realise all that, why on earth would they even want to be 
> in Slytherin? Or, for that matter, why the WW would want to put up 
> with Slytherin House? Slytherin is all about purebloodism and 
> Realpolitik, remove both and there would be nothing left.  It is one 
> thing to forgive or redeem, or whatever the members of, say, SS who 
> saw errors of their ways at last, but no one in their right mind 
> would want to *reform* SS. So I'd say that Rowling set up a problem 
> that has no resolution. You can't change the Nazi ideology into 
> something acceptable. You can only renounce it, but in doing so you'd 
> have to renounce the Nazi institutions as well. Whereas Rowling 
> supposedly expects from Slytherins to change while still remaining 
> Slytherins. That can't possibly work. 
> 

I disagree here. Just because Rowling does not understand the point of 
Slytherin house minus pure-bloodism, does not mean there is not one.

Troy would not have fallen with the Gryffindor antics of Achilles alone. 
They needed Odysseus as well. And surely he was the father of all 
Slytherins?

A famous event in Jewish history, the Metsada siege, ended with the 
defenders committing mass suicide rather than surrender. Except for one 
guy, Josephus Flavius, who later became a model roman citizen and famous 
writer. So the saying goes something like that: "If all the Jews were 
like Metsada defenders, there would be no Jews. If all the Jews were 
like Josephus Flavius, there would be no Jews."

It's always the balance of different personalities that makes things 
viable. Rowling wants her elephant to stand on one leg and us to believe 
that it's the only honourable position for the poor beast? Fine, but we 
don't have to accept that as a fact of life.

In one of her recent interviews she said that in the battle of Hogwarts 
Slytherins left to get reinforcements, and she says it in a derogatory 
manner. Surely there are some situations where it's necessary to do just 
that? She seems to prefer glorious suicide, but I don't have to accept 
that as a universal solution either. We don't all have the loopholes 
that Harry enjoyed.

Irene