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

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No: HPFGUIDX 185595

Pippin:
<SNIP>
Snape certainly had good reasons to dislike Harry based on what he
knew of James. But his prejudice kept him from noticing any of the
ways in which Harry was not like James. Perfectly understandable, IMO,
but if we don't think that was okay, how can we think it's okay to
hate Slytherins? <SNIP>

Alla:


Maybe the analogy with deciding to hate James' son on the spot  works 
for you, but it certainly does not work for me.  Harry **met** Draco 
Malfoy his classmate and Draco Malfoy is the one based on whom he 
formed the opinion about Slytherin, well for the most part anyway. We 
also have Snape of course, who treated him so lovely during the first 
lesson.

There is also that matter that I do not think that Snape's hatred of 
James is completely justified either, but that is an aside.

Harry certainly formed an opinion of the whole house based on the few 
representatives of it and in real life I would say that he should 
check out other people before judging  whole house, except, where are 
those people exactly?

Where are the students who do not think and  do like Draco Malfoy 
does?  Yes, I know people argued about invisible Slytherins that 
exist and are good people ( the examples given were just name 
characters). To me they are not part of the story except being there 
in name only. To me author meant for me to form an opinion of the 
whole Slytherin student body based on selected few. 

Oh and I did not say that my friend's opinion was something I agreed 
with, just something I totally understood. 


Laura says:

We don't know all of any of the houses. I think the ones we do know
are meant to be representative of the whole.

Alla:

Totally totally agreed. And when JKR wanted us to see that really not 
all Gryffindors are brave and lovely, she showed Pettigrew to us, 
loud and clear.

I did not see anybody like that in the current Slytherin generation, 
I am sure they exist if it was real world and we saw heroic Slyths in 
DH. But even they initially ALL followed it, no?


If I do not see anybody in Slytherin house who not follows pureblood 
supremacy ideology, I assume they all do. Because as I am sure I 
mentioned it before, when character who is so so minor makes it clear 
that he shares it, I think it was done very deliberately (when he 
substitutes for Draco during Quidditch match in HBP. I even forgot 
his name and too lazy to look it up).

It is not right to generalize in RL based on selected few, 
understandable, but not right at all. In fiction however we often 
meant to, I think. And if we are not, author will let me know.

Again, even despite all the heroic Slyths I saw, for some reason I 
really did not feel that JKR pulled a rug about it on me. 

JMO,

Alla