chapt disc: SS/PS, ch 5, Diagon Alley-Pansy: Pro-Voldemort or Anti-Harry???

[bboyminn]

No: HPFGUIDX 187897

---  "dumbledore11214" <dumbledore11214 at ...> wrote:
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> Alla:
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> <SNIP>
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> > > The episode that for me packs the most emotional punch is disgusting Pansy wanting to sell Harry to Voldemort ...
> > 
> > Pippin:
> > It's a vivid picture, but it seems to owe more to your 
> > imagination  than Rowling's.
> > 
> > This is what JKR wrote:
> ><SNIP canon, go upthread to read it> ===
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> > Harry doesn't see what is going on at the Slytherin table 
> > once the other students have risen and are standing in the
> > way. But Harry  hears the benches grinding *after* 
> > McGonagall orders the Slytherins to leave. ...
> > 
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> Alla:
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> No, I do not believe it does. I did not make up the story about Pansy wanting to give Harry to Voldemort and that is what I was talking about. ...
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> Pippin:
> > A quick google search reveals 4.9 million hits for Slytherin Snape and 4.5 million hits for Slytherin Draco. There are 340,000 for Slytherin Pansy Parkinson, ...
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> Alla:
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> Well, I specifically talked about *this particular reader*, 
> that means that I talked about my reactions, not everybody 
> else"s.
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> ...
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> To go back to Pantsy, her **action** for me is the action JKR
> wants me to remember the nowadays house Slytherin by. I saw 
> no Regulus or Andromeda in this generation of Slytherins, 
> only Pantsy Parkinsons and Dracos.
> 
> JMO,
> 
> Alla
>

I think you both make good points and I do see that Alla was
speaking in a limited context.

But we are assuming the context in which Pansy acted. Not that
it makes much difference in the end though. We are assuming
Pansy's goal is victory for Voldemort, but it could have been
simply 'Get rid of Potter so I don't get killed'. 

The motive could have been self-preservation rather than anti-
Harry or pro-Voldemort. It could very well be that if the war 
had been about Draco, she would have given Draco up in an 
instant to save her own hide. 

Either way, it is still a very Slytherin-ish thing to do. But
I don't think we can say for certain that her motivation is
pro-Voldemort or anti-Harry, though that certain is the 
ultimate effect of her actions.  

Sorry, just a thought I had.

Steve/bboyminn