[HPforGrownups] Re: Things that you wish were in the Harry Potter novels

[Eric Oppen]

No: HPFGUIDX 192092

Quoting zanooda2 <zanooda2 at yahoo.com>:

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> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, keenefx at ... wrote:
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>>  Since we are on this topic, when in the Deathly Hallows all the
>> Slytherins are confined to their dorms, it seems to remind me
>> (loosely) of the internment of Japanese-Americans after the
>> Pearl Harbor attack.
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> zanooda:
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> Brian, the Slytherins were never confined to any dorms. They were   
> just evacuated from the castle before everyone else. True, they were  
>  not offered a choice to stay and fight, like the rest of the  
> school,  but confined? No, they were *not* confined, on the  
> contrary, they  were sent out of the war zone to safety. And if any  
> of them wanted  to fight, he/she could always say "no, I'm not  
> leaving, I'm staying  and fighting for Hogwarts", right :-)?
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I would say that getting them out of the line of fire was wise, if  
only because it meant that they didn't have a terrible choice to make:  
Fight my family or fight my schoolmates?

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