[HPforGrownups] Slytherin house

[June Ewing]

No: HPFGUIDX 191622

> Jenn:
> There's not a witch nor wizard that didn't go bad that came out of
Slytherin (Hagrid SORCERER'S STONE, US).  The worst was Tom Riddle and
we know who he became.  Snape changed only to try to save Lily.
McNair lied to stay out of Azkaban.  Many of the deatheaters were in
Slytherin.  Lucius was a prefect in Slytherin.  Slytherin himself
valued purebloods above all others and this supposedly caused a riff
between Gryffindor and himself.  I appreciate a response or your
> opinions, thank you.  Jenn fuzz876i


June:
Actually what Hagrid said was that there wasn't a witch or wizard that
went bad that wasn't from Slytherin. In other words not all Slytherins
go bad but if a witch or wizard does go bad he/she will be from
Slytherin. This too did not turn out to be correct (and Hagrid himself
should have known this). The wizarding world believed for years that
Sirius Black (a Gryffindor although from a Slytherin family) gave the
Potters to Voldemort. This too turned out to be incorrect as Sirius
was innocent and Peter Pettigrew (another Gryffindor whose parents we
really don't know anything about) turned out to be the one who gave
the Potters to Voldemort. Therefore it is not true that Slytherin =
evil.