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

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a_svirn: 
> 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.  


Alla:

Hm, sure if one takes Dumbledore's every opinion as the one that author 
holds as correct, then sure it can reinforce that idea I agree.

But Dumbledore at various points of his life hold such opinions as 
muggle domination is a good thing, he also thought that it would be 
good to divert Harry from Horcruxes and to hallows, those are two 
examples where text pretty explicitly tells us that those opinions are 
wrong, no?

So, yes, sure it can reinforce the idea that Slytherin is a house of 
rotters, it can also reinforce my thoughts of telling Dumbledore to 
shove this opinion of his to the same part of his brain where he holds 
the opinion that it is okay to lecture the teenager about the 
misgivings of his just dead godfather, and where he holds the opinion 
that it is totally ok to disregard the danger whole school is in as 
long as he is trying to save Draco's soul, and where he holds the 
opinion that he would not let Minerva in on some Order's secrets, etc, 
etc.

This last paragraph is of course my intepretation of what Dumbledore 
thought or did, and I am not bringing it as facts, I am bringing those 
into the mix to say that I personally heard Dumbledore being wrong so 
so many times, that this remark, well, reallly does not account for 
much, if anything, except another time when he could be wrong.

I mean, I know JKR said that Dumbledore often speaks for her, but I do 
not believe she said Dumbledore always speaks for her (can somebody 
post a link for this interview, please?) and in any event we have 
several times Dumbledore being wrong in the text.

This remark is not even a fact, which I would have harder time 
disbelieving him. He specifically says I think.

JMO,

Alla