Things that you wish were in the Harry Potter novels

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 192013

Alla:
> Actually, no wait, I may have couple of things which I may not consider very consistent. I guess House Unity message she never wanted to convey. While I did not care for good Slytherins to appear (I mean I did not care either way whether they would  appear or not), the epilogue was kind of dissapointing in that regard. Albus still does not care to be in Slytherin - nothing seems to change.

Pippin:
But something did change, because Harry and Hermione think it's wrong for Slytherins and Gryffindors to be set against each other. 

Harry could not have named, prior to DH, any Slytherin who deserved his respect. Now he reminds Al that if he wants to think   Slytherins are no good, he'll be disrespecting his own name, and the parents who gave it to him.

It's not House Unity, but it's Harry and Hermione and Ginny thinking that unity would be a good thing. Al doesn't believe it -- yet. But it's not because his parents haven't tried to  set an example for him. 

Alla: 
> And I cant believe I am saying  it, but as much as I hate Draco Malfoy, looking at it from the distance and not picking up books for about a year, I really do think that Tower was all for nothing and his character development which supposedly occurred in book 6 pretty much dissappeared in book seven.

Pippin:
It depends on what you think Draco was supposed to learn on the Tower. If you think he was supposed to learn that if he did the right thing he could become a hero for the good guys and save the day -- then no, he didn't learn that.

But Dumbledore didn't promise him that, did he? What he told Draco was that if he was willing to do a good thing now, then others would help him and his family, despite knowing  what he'd done in the past, and might do in the future.  

And that came to fruition in the Room of Requirement. Draco refused to be rescued until Goyle could be saved, too.  Would he have had the strength to make that choice if Dumbledore had not worked so hard to convince Draco that his choices mattered?

And would Harry have worked so hard to save Draco and Goyle if Dumbledore had not convinced him, by example, that Draco was worth saving? And if Draco had not been saved, Narcissa would not have helped Harry. Then what?

Pippin