Slytherin's Reputation was Re: CHAPDISC: DH, EPILOGUE

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No: HPFGUIDX 185568

> Pippin:
> Did they deserve to be hated on sight? Excluded from the DA?  Presumed
> guilty until proven innocent?
>

Alla:

You know, Pippin, it is funny. Couple weeks ago I had a conversation 
with somebody about how unfair it is to judge the group of people by 
stereotyping and response I got was the one I did not expect, but the 
one I fully understand. Basically what my friend was saying is 
stereotyping maybe unfair, but that is how our mind works and it is 
often a simple survival instinct.

To bring it back to Slytherins, did the whole house deserved it? In a 
purely hypothetical way, of course not, in a not hypothetical way, the 
representatives of this House (a whole LOT of them mind you, not  just 
Pantsy dear) was ready to hang Harry to Voldemort.

So, yeah, I say it was a very understandable instinct on Mcgonagall 
behalf to order them all out.

Did Slytherin deserve not to be invited in DA? Um, purely 
hypothetically of course not. But based on how the Slytherins we saw 
treated Harry and his friends, yes, sure, why should they invite those 
who they suspect of sympathizing with Voldemort?

Would it be nice if they look beyond Malfoy and his company? Surely, 
why not. I am just not sure at whom they should look at among the 
current students.

In short, if Slytherin was judged simply because everybody else looked 
at them and said, oh wait they sound funny and look funny, let's 
ostracise them and be prejudiced against them, I will be the first one 
to say, how dare they.

But they had plenty of good reasons to judge the house based on the few 
they interacted with.

I totally understand why Slytherins were judged based on the few and 
excluded.

Just as I understand how Harry may judge Slytherins differently based 
on others few that he saw fighting the battles.

JMO,

Alla