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

[montavilla47]

No: HPFGUIDX 183315

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "kempermentor" <iam.kemper at ...> wrote:
>
> 
> > 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
>

Montavilla47:

Zacharias Smith was the bad Hufflepuff.