[HPforGrownups] Re: Did the Slytherins come back?

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Betsy Hp:






The other thing is, IMO, the *only* place JKR tells us not all 

Slytherins are bad is in her interviews.  It's really hard to find 

places in the text that support her theory.  The Gryffindors 

certainly hate all Slytherins on sight, and they're never put in a 

position to learn anything different.  Neither is their behavior 

towards Slytherins ever questioned.  Whereas Slytherins behaving 

badly is clearly seen as such.



It's strange, and I'm not sure why she did it, but it's like JKR 

wrote one book (or series) and but then interviews about an entirely 

different set.  Unless we're going with the esoteric what appears to 

be isn't and what seems to not be is reading (and if you're confused 

by that phrase you begin to see the issue of doing that sort of 

reading <eg>) we're left with a series in which certain people are 

just evil from birth (or age eleven) and some people are good and 

here's a series where they battle.



Which leaves for a fun story (if you like the good guys and JKR's 

style of writing) but not a deep one.





Oryomai:
If I can bless you with another gem, I agree.? As much as I always believed that the Slytherins came back to fight, it is almost impossible to prove Good!Slytherin though canon alone.

As I said in an offlist email to CJ, JKR wanted the readers to know that the Slytherins did come back to fight.? She's been telling us all these little details in interviews because she could not fit them in the seven books.? I personally would rather have seen longer books than more interviews later.

I think she has an entirely different idea of the books than many of her readers do.? This is also true of us readers as we can interpret entirely different things than she does.? It's what makes the books fun!

Oryomai

    











 



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