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

Zara zgirnius at yahoo.com
Fri Feb 6 04:49:57 UTC 2009


No: HPFGUIDX 185672

> > 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. 

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

> Shelley: 
> 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.

Zara:
Poor montavilla cannot win, can she? If there is no Slytherin who was 
hated on sight, then she is wrong. No one is unfair to them, they 
have all earned their black reputations. If there is a Slytherin who 
was shown to be hated on sight, he deserved to be.

*scratches head in puzzlement*








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