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

[a_svirn]

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> Magpie:
> I don't discount them as part of the group--they are absolutely part 
> of Slytherin (though I think Dumbledore's "maybe we sort to early" 
> line comes closer to edging Snape towards 'not counting as Slytherin' 
> than anything said here). 

More importantly even, it reinforces the idea of Slytherin as a house 
of rotters. Because in this instance "I think we sort too early" 
translates as "I think we cull or discard too early." Obviously, 
Dumbledore meant that there was something in Snape worthy of a better 
fate than being consigned to the lifetime of slytherinness.  
a_svirn