Loose Ends, (was Epilogue (was Re: Ron and Parseltongue)

[kempermentor]

No: HPFGUIDX 183314


> Potioncat:
> The Good Slytherin wasn't one of JKR's threads, it was all ours. If
> I  had time, I'd go back to look for his (or her) origin. It had to do 
> with an expected reversal of image. As I imagined the Good Slytherin, 
> his purpose was to show Harry and the reader that stereotypes aren't 
> necessarily true. I thought Theo Nott would be The Good Slyhterin. 
> > <sigh>  
> 
> Pippin:
> Trouble is, a reversed negative stereotype is still a stereotype. It's
> still a preconceived image, and it's demeaning. It's  a message about
> how members of a certain group should behave which other groups are
> presumed not to need. Nobody thinks JKR let us down by not showing us
> a Good Ravenclaw or a Good Hufflepuff, right? 

Kemper now:
Perhaps I don't understand your question...
We see a Good Ravenclaw (and a bad with Marietta).  We see only good
Hufflepuff kids.  We see Good Gryffindor (and bad, or at least very
creepy, with McLaggen).

But nobody complains about the absence of a bad Hufflepuff.
Because there are none!  Hufflepuffs rule!!!

Kemper