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

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 185515


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> Magpie:
> I don't think there is a significant difference. The categories are 
> distinct, if not in the case of Snape and Lily (for a while, until 
> his being a Slytherin actually did come between them), but in the 
> sense of how you put across an idea in the book.

Pippin:
Being a Slytherin never came between between Snape and Lily. Being a
Death Eater did. IIRC, she never said a word against Slytherin House.
 Certainly she didn't hold it against Slughorn.  And of course
Slughorn is a well-connected, highly-influential person himself. 

Magpie:
 It's an incredibly  deliberate misdirect to in this quick line use
these words to reveal an actual turnaround. The Snape/Lily surprise
itself depended on the  fact that Slytherins had been isolated
throughout the series and  especially in this book, with their own
friends and their own  families, except in special cases that need
explanations. 

Pippin:
The turnaround is revealed in Malfoy not letting go of Goyle to save
himself (growing in courage from the young man who tortured Rowle
under threat of Voldemort's wrath),  it's  "in the name of brave
Regulus","dueling McGonagall, Slughorn, and Kingsley all at once", and
of course, "probably the bravest man I ever knew." 

The quick line is not the turn around, it just shows us that the turn
around isn't necessarily enough to counter a long-standing bias.   It
certainly isn't the only place or the major place that JKR makes that
point.

Pippin