[HPforGrownups] To kill or not to kill and resolutions of the storyline/ Slytherins (LONG )

[k12listmomma]

No: HPFGUIDX 185609

> Alla:
> Why can't the exit of the Slytherins be the event that IS of interest
> to the author in her own right? And why can't their return be just
> something secondary that she knows happened, but that she could care
> less about in order to write about it clearly?

Shelley:
I think it matters in the end- if Hogwarts is to return and have FOUR 
houses, and not just THREE, after the battle. If only three stood in defense 
of it, and the Syltherins fought with Voldmort to bring Hogwarts (and Harry 
Potter) down, they why would you invite them back into the school to be 
students? Why wouldn't the alliance of the four houses be broken permanently 
with that battle? It matters in the end if some of the Syltherins did come 
back, so that you can't blame the entire house when it's clear (or would 
have been clear, if Rowling had written it that way) that some Syltherins 
chose Voldemort, but others chose Hogwarts and Harry instead. It makes a 
world of difference to me on the redemtion end, the healing end, the post 
war end, where the school would have to come together again as a group to 
function.

If you are saying that it mattered to Rowling if she showed the Slytherins 
leaving, but it slipped her mind to say that some returned to fight with 
Harry, then to me, that shows a huge mistake of just assuming that the 
readership will be all together with her to say "no hard feelings about 
Syltherin or Snape, or anything that happened- all's well 17 years later". 
She's taking a huge leap with that in the Epilogue, and she makes it even 
greater by not identifying even one Syltherin (Slughorn was teacher and had 
a duty to defend the school) who chose to be there by choice.I guess this is 
why this last book is my least favorite- she just says "all's well", but she 
doesn't show us that "all's well", as she does all throughout the series 
with other things.