Slytherin house

[coriandra2002]

No: HPFGUIDX 191612

> Eric:
> Hagrid is not, to put it mildly, an unbiassed or generally-reliable
> source of information.  He's got a heart the size of a five-gallon
> pail, but his brain, not so much.

coriandra2002:
That's very true. Hagrid, if I remember correctly told Harry and Ron
that Aragog was harmless and told Quirrel how to get past the three
headed guard dog.  He obviously wasn't a very good judge of character.

> Eric:
> And so did Regulus Black, who martyred himself to try to take out
> one of the Horcruces.  REgulus, you may note, was able to glag down
> all of that horrible potion, which was more than Dumbledore could
> do unassisted, all by himself.  He died a member of the Clean Plate
> Club!

coriandra2002:
Andromeda Black was another Slytherin who didn't "go bad" and Peter
Pettigrew, a Gryffindor most definitely did.  Even Draco Malfoy
desires some credit I believe. He'd been taught from birth to think
of "blood traitors" and Muggles born as garbage and it probably never
occurred to him to question that until he went to Hogwarts.  I think
the fact that he rose above that, however slightly, says something
about his character.