CHAPDISC: DH36, THE FLAW IN THE PLAN

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 185267

> SSSusan:
> I think we're clearly talking at cross purposes here, which I can 
> probably attribute to my not being more clear in expressing what I 
> was trying to express.
> 
> I was talking *specifically about the final battle at Hogwarts,* 
<snip>
> What I struggle with is that, in the situation where it really 
> mattered to *demonstrate* any goodness within--in terms of fighting 
> against what's clearly badness--we didn't get to see even one 
> Slytherin student do that.  That's the part that makes me groan.
> 

Pippin:
I didn't realize that you only meant the battle. But my point still
applies.

"They seemed to have returned at the head of what looked like the
families and friends of every Hogwarts student who had remained to
fight, along with the shopkeepers and homeowners of Hogsmeade."


The "friends" have to be other Hogwarts students, but we never learn
any of their names.

Though Harry sees hundreds of people  between that moment and the
moment he sneaks out of the Great Hall with Ron and Hermione when it's
all over, the only students he notices in the  fight are  Ron,
Hermione, Neville, Luna and Ginny. 

IOW, we don't see *any* of the returned students "being good" except
en masse. We don't know  which students returned from any of the
houses.     Even Draco isn't named: he's just one of the three
Malfoys. That's Harry's state of mind. 

But if there's no longer anything remarkable to him in Slytherins
fighting against badness,  there's no reason for him to take any
more notice of Slytherins who returned than of Hufflepuffs or
Ravenclaws or Gryffindors. 


Pippin