CHAPDISC: DH31, The Battle of Hogwarts

[jkoney65]

No: HPFGUIDX 184629

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Carol" <justcarol67 at ...> wrote:
> Carol:

> > 1.    Is it believable that there are no good Slytherins? Wouldn't
> > one or two of them remain to fight? Are they all totally
> unredeemable? Or is it just herd mentality i.e. one leaves they all 
leave?
> 
> Carol responds:
> 
> It's not believable that there are no good Slytherins. However, the
> underage students from all Houses, not just Slytherin, are ordered 
to
> leave, so it's only the seventh-years and of-age sixth-years who 
would
> be allowed to stay and fight, and given Pansy's remark and
> McGonagall's response, any Slytherins who volunteer to stay will be
> suspected of being on the wrong side. We see *all* the Gryffindors,
> Hufflepuffs, and Ravenclaws pointing their wands at *all* the
> Slytherins, assuming, as McGonagall has done earlier, that they're 
all
> Death Eaters in the making. (Their loyalty to Headmaster Snape, the
> supposed murderer of Dumbledore, no doubt reinforces that 
impression.)

Jack-A-Roe:
I don't remember any Slytherin's pointing their wand at Pansy after 
her remark, while the other houses did. That alone is cause for 
concern against the Slytherin's.

The other students have lived with these slytherin's all year. We 
only hear how Crabbe and Goyle acted, I think they are supposed to 
represent the worst, but I don't doubt that others also acted in some 
not so pleasant ways. The reactions of the other three houses tell us 
this.

As far as anyone but Snape knows, he did murder Dumbledore. If that 
bothers you then you are with us, if it doesn't you must be against 
us.