To kill or not to kill and resolutions of the storyline

[juli17 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 185566

 


Carol,  who sees no point in continuing to argure our differing
interpretations of  this passage



Julie:
True, that. What it really boils down to is that some readers are  comfortable
with the ambiguity about Slytherin House, and some would have preferred  to
have had the moral stand against Voldemort spelled out for them ;-) 
 
Hey, I admit I'm one of the latter! I wanted it clearly acknowledged in the  
end
that Slytherin House was *potentially* like any other House, comprised  of 
those
from all spectrums along the "good" to "bad" scale (or again, with the  same 
general potential to land anywhere along that scale). No doubt some will 
virtually always become good (Luna, Neville) and others bad  (Bellatrix, 
Peter),
but not all nor even most are incapable of internalizing new ideals or  mores
at age 11 (or age 21 even, as we saw with Snape).
 
Thus I also wanted to see some acknowledgement that ostracism and  biased
judgments (If a Gryffindor does it, it's good, if a Slytherin does it, it's  
bad) will
never, ever influence someone--let alone a whole House--to change his or  her
views, or even consider the differing opinions and views of those who are 
ostracizing and judging them. (And note, I'm not talking about changing 
someone like Tom Riddle or Bellatrix, who probably can't be changed, but 
all those hundreds of other Slytherins throughout the years like Snape  and
Regulus, who didn't enter school with their minds so set--or  damaged--that
they couldn't be influence toward the "good" side. That is, if someone  had
ever cared or tried to do so.)
 
Julie, who doesn't really buy that Lily tried to sway Snape to the "good"  
side,
because despite rightly criticizing his friends she never really  offered him 
a 
practical alternative, or any actual assurance that she'd truly be  there 
with 
him if he shunned his House. (And, no JKR didn't have to write it for it to  
have
happened offpage, but she should have if she wanted her readers to  believe
It was Snape alone who destroyed the relationship between him and  Lily--also
it would have helped if Lily hadn't laughed at him in his graying underwear  
;-)
 
Oops, rambled off again!
 
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