About Slytherin....

[rhkennerly]

No: HPFGUIDX 187922





--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Bart Lidofsky <bart at ...> wrote:
> must assume that dark magic gives more power more easily than other 
> magic, or else it would not be a temptation. However, it also means that 
> the Slytherin mind is very much about weighing the risks, and choosing 
> the path with the highest probability of the best outcome.
> 

PNB to Harry as he's packing to leave Grimmauld Place (OOP, Christmas on the Closed Ward)

"It looks to me as though you'd better off in my own house.  We Slytherins are brave, yes, but not stupid.  For instance, given the choice, we will always choose to save our own necks."  

> I do want to point out another "good Slytherin", although I suspect 
> there might be some (many?) here who disagree with me: Phineas Nigellus 
> Black. Say what you want about him, Finny was one of the very few who 
> was always 100% straight with Harry. And, with his manner, he was also 
> one of the very few who could actually get Harry to LISTEN to his 
> advice. Frankly, I consider Finny superior to DD; at least you always 
> knew where you stood with Finny.
> 
> Bart
>

Isn't this the same PNB who feigned sleep in his portrait to avoid a mission when DD tried to send him off to Grimmauld Place the night Arthur Weasley was attacked by the snake?  He had to be shamed into taking the job by the other portraits.  

Rick