Slytherins (was Re: CHAPDISC: DH32, The Elder Wand

[potioncat]

No: HPFGUIDX 184761


> Carol responds:
 
> I'll just say that this onnversation occurs before Snape's death and
> before Harry's little excursion to King's Cross, so it certainly
> occurred before Slughorn's return, with or without Slytherins in 
tow. 

Potioncat:
Yes, and now we've moved out of chapter 32. But if we must 
assume "some" Slytherins will show up with Slughorn, and some will 
stay at home, and 3 didn't leave the castle at all, that doesn't 
leave very many to have reported to LV's camp. Granted, JKR isn't 
very good with numbers. Of course, LV's point, as you say, is that 
Draco didn't come to the camp.
 

Carol:
 We don't see them returning with Slughorn
> (though Harry is in a hurry and the narrator gives no clear idea of
> which students are following Slughorn. I see no point, BTW, in their
> being "old boys and girls" of no interest to the reader; the only
> slytherins we're interested in, if any, are the ones we've met.) But
> we don't see them, or any other schoolage Slytherins, fighting for
> Voldemort.

Potioncat:
Those are the only Slytherins I'm interested in, but who knows what 
JKR meant! I still think she answered off the cuff and hadn't really 
given it any thought. Assuming she did mean some of the 6th and 7th 
years returned with Slughorn, That could mean Theo--probably not 
Blaise. Not Pansy, but who knows about the others? It could also mean 
some of the former students that we knew.


 
> Carol,
 whose path was crossed today by a gray-and-black cat--hope that
> means only semi-bad or neutral luck! ;-)


Potioncat:
Well, given our interest in witches and such, I'd say any cat of any 
color would be good luck. Unless it was Mrs. Norris or cute kittens 
on plates.