[HPforGrownups] Re: Sorting Hat for a Day

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> > Joey:
> 
> > Well, I agree with you about Regulus, Draco and Slughorn but they seem to be exceptions because didn't the entire lot of Slytherins leave the scene soon after Pansy's suggestion to handover Harry to Voldy? That does seem to match what Phineas says.

 
> Potioncat:
> They really didn't have much choice, McGonagall ordered them out. We know 3 stayed behind for their own reasons, some went to LV. Most were under age and were leaving just like all the other underage students. We don't know if any current Slytherin student came back with Slughorn.
> 
> I suppose someone could have stood up and said, "No, I want to stay and fight for Hogwarts." <SNIP>


>Alla:
I disagree, I think their choice should have been exercised **before** McGonagall threw them out.
<SNIP>


>Zara:
<SNIP>
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:
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.


> 
> Pippin:
> Earlier? But that would have to be before they knew what Pansy was going to say. Are they all seers, then? 
<SNIP>


>Alla:
No, that would be the very second after Pansy suggested to give up their classmate to the leader of murderers and torturers against whom Hogwarts is preparing to defend themselves.
<SNIP>


Joey:


I agree with Alla's points though there is a slight difference in the way I look at it, I suppose. I think it is natural for a typical human being to think of himself / herself before others and I don't expect Slytherins to be self-sacrificing in nature. Yet I do think that their attitude and behaviour fade in comparison to what students of other houses did in similar circumstances. I could not help admiring what the Ravenclaws and Hufflepuffs did in that scene - they could have agreed with Pansy and / or left along with the Slytherins but they didn't. Also, Pansy's suggestion does sound horrible to me - she could have just chosen not to fight and left the place but suggesting to handover Harry to Voldemort sounds gruesome to me. 

 Cheers,
~Joey :-)


      

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