CHAPDISC: DH, EPILOGUE

[kneazlecat54]

No: HPFGUIDX 185533

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> Laura responded:
> > 
> > Carol, I wish I could share your optimism about student relations 
at
> Hogwarts, but I suspect that more parents share Ron's attitude than 
> Harry's.  I'd be less pessimistic if JKR had shown more Slytherins 
in
> the Battle of Hogwarts, but one Slughorn doesn't compensate for the
> rest of the house deserting the school as quickly as they were able. 
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> 
> Carol responds:
> 
><snip>Draco hated being a Death Eater, failed to kill Dumbledore, 
reluctantly Crucioed other DEs only out of fear of retaliation against 
himself or his family, and refused to clearly acknowledge that he 
recognized HRH. <snip>Pansy Parkinson admittedly advocated turning
> Harry over to Voldemort, whieh *to her* seemed like the sensible and
> obvious way to save the school from Voldemort's vengeance, but no
> other Slytherin echoed her view. They left the school because
> Mcgonagall ordered them to do so. <snip> If the (of-age)
> Slytherins returned to fight, as JKR says that they did in an
> interview (which has no more and no less authority as canon than her
> outing of Dumbledore, whcih you accept as fact even though canon
> evidence is ambiguous), they've redeemed themselves. <snip>

Laura says:

Just because you're a failed villain doesn't mean you're not a 
villain.  Draco never missed an opportunity to bully the weak, suck up 
to the powerful and promote himself at every opportunity.  He didn't 
reveal HRH on his mother's instructions, not because he cared about 
them.  Pansy was just as much of a bully.  I didn't read JKR's remarks 
about Slytherins  coming back to fight, but I'm glad to hear it.  
Still, McGonagall's orders didn't stop Colin Creevey from coming back 
to fight.  That's just a weak excuse.  

When I referred to Slytherins fighting in the Battle, I meant adult 
ones, and it's clear that there were plenty of those.  

Laura, who would like to think that Carol is right but thinks caution 
is a wise attitude to adopt towards Draco et al.
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