[HPforGrownups] Slytherin's Reputation was Re: CHAPDISC: DH, EPILOGUE

[k12listmomma]

No: HPFGUIDX 185571

> Pippin:
>> ><snip>
>> >
>> > IMO, Harry understands that Gryffindor's reputation is inflated
> and Slytherin's is unfairly tarnished, paralleling Dumbledore and Snape.
>> <snip>
>>
>> Laura says:
>>
>> Why unfairly?  It seems to me that Slytherin more than earned its
>> reputation.
>> <snip>
>
> Pippin:
> Did they deserve to be hated on sight? Excluded from the DA?  Presumed
> guilty until proven innocent?


Wait, who in Slytherin was "hated on sight"? Seems to me that Syltherin 
members, as Laura said, EARNS their reputation. Draco, as the bully, earns 
his own name. The kids being the sons and daughters of death eaters, 
scowling at the Mudbloods, earns them the reputation. Sorry, but Rowling 
doesn't show us one Syltherin who doesn't earn the reputation as a whole, 
any single individual who defies the group to be a good person. I don't see 
where even oneSyltherin was "hated on sight"- Rowling is clear to introduce 
each of them "joining the gang" as it were, to earn the reputation.

Shelley