To kill or not to kill and resolutions of the storylineWAS :Re: Disarming spell

[jkoney65]

No: HPFGUIDX 185503

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "sistermagpie" 
<sistermagpie at ...> wrote:
>
>> Magpie:
> Is this an interpretation that reads "Slughorn and Charlie Weasley 
> returned with the friends and family of the remaining students" as 
> one that adds Slytherins to the mix? Because if it is I have to say 
> imo it does not hold water. It seems like the only reason to even 
> need a different interpretation is to try to reconcile it with JKR 
> later totally different recounting of what she wrote. Otherwise to 
me 
> it's like reading the line in HBP that says something like "the 
next 
> group was all Hufflepuffs" or to describe a group of kids who show 
up 
> to try out for Gryffindor Quidditch and saying "But Harry wouldn't 
> recognize them all as Hufflepuffs...there must have been 
> Slytherins/Ravenclaws/Gryffindors there too." It's just how the 
> narrator tells us what's going on. Does anyone question that line? 
Or 
> any other of the many lines like it? 
> 

jkoney
I think at one point or another we have all agreed that Harry isn't 
the most reliable narrator.

The line about the quidditch tryouts illustrates that Harry doesn't 
know that many people in the school. He has his close friends, his 
dorm mates, quidditch people and the people he attends class with. 
Other than that, I don't even think he knows everyone in Gryffendor.

So when he sees the people coming to the fight he calls them friends 
and family memebers because he doesn't know who they are (as in what 
house) but he knows they are coming as support for his side.

So if he had spent the time to recognize that there were slytherins 
in the group I think we would be discussing how inconsistent JKR was 
by naming the slytherins when he doesn't usually recognize anyone 
outside his groups.