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

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> Shelley:
>> 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.
>
> Montavilla47:
> There is a Slytherin (I think it's Malcolm Baddock) who is hissed by
> Fred and George as he is sorted into Slytherin.

A facts from the books: Fred and George are from an old Wizarding family. We 
see time and time again that Fred and George know far more than Harry about 
the other wizards simply because of who their dad is, his job, and other 
connections that Harry is yet unfamiliar with. They, unlike Harry, have a 
much better clue of the wizard families of importance and the alliegances 
they hold or did hold with the last war, attitudes toward purebloods and not 
so purebloods, etc. So, I took that passage to say that Fred and George knew 
something about that Syltherin that Harry didn't yet know, something that 
would have earned that student a hiss of disapproval. It's you who are 
assuming that this student was disliked "on sight", with no further 
knowledge about him in that context than he had just been sorted into 
Slytherin. Frankly, I haven't been given a reason to distrust Fred or 
George's instincts about people- they seem to be dead on. Either way, it's 
Rowling who writes this passage in such a way to say that if Fred and George 
don't like this individual, neither should we.

Shelley