Sorting Hat for a Day

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No: HPFGUIDX 188513

Zara:
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In fact, the only Slytherin I can think of who seems to have acted according to
Phineas's little saying was Pansy Parkinson. And even in her case, this could be
as much about her dislike of Harry as about saving her own skin.



Alla:

But even if you disagree with me that the other Slytherins stood up by Pansy to threaten Harry, it still seems to me that what they did here is a perfect illustration to Phineus' little speech. 

Here it seems to me the Slytherins students have the opportunity to do what Harry and Ron did in book 1, to save the person they did not like.

Yeah, it requires thinking about other person's life **before** your own, and yes Harry does not have friends among Slytherins, but that to me is the whole point.

They know that giving Harry to Voldemort means his death, are they saying anything to Pansy?

I do not know, to me as I said, all of this is a perfect illustration of Slytherins as a whole thinking about themselves first and foremost.

I think this was a moment of truth for Slytherins as a whole, I think they failed spectacularly in that. Yes, I know Snape and Regulus and Slughorn were brave and Slytherin students still did not say anything against giving up Harry to Voldemort.

And yes, they wanted to save their lives, but again to me this is the whole point and all goes back to arguing that Slytherins never did what Harry and Ron did, even when giving the opportunity. IMO of course.   And sure, yes it could be about Pansy saving her skin first and foremost, which is exactly my point, I just think that her brethren were concerned with that too.


JMO,

Alla