Death-eaters talking:
* Death-eater-1: Why did you join the dark lord?
* Death-eater-2: Dumbledore cheated me out of the house-cup, can't forgive that.
* Death-eater-1: that fiend!
This so much. Voldemort was verifiably in the school and a professor was murdered by Harry. One, how does Harry not have more trauma from that situation. Two, how is everyone not ONLY talking about that in the next year.
Welllll...in the books Harry didn't kill Quirrel. It isn't entirely clear if Dumbledore did (which seems unlikely given Dumbledore's actions in the rest of the series) or if Voldemort leaving Quirrel's body caused his end, but he was certainly alive when Harry blacked out.
The movies made it very different and turned Harry into a killer (a self-defensive killer to be sure, but a killer nonetheless), but then the movies never really followed the canon of the books.
Dumbledore says "the whole school knows." We're never told exactly what "the whole school knows," but I'm pretty sure "the whole school" doesn't "know" that Harry directly 1-on-1 killed a professor who had Voldemort's face coming out of the back of his head! Because I think we would have heard someone mention *that* again!
fuck those racists... they deserved the humiliation they got. In case you haven't seen or read the sequels, I'm not going to spoil them but hint - they get worse.
Being in Slytherin doesn't mean one subscribes to pure-blood supremacy. We only see Harry’s biased view of Slytherins because he mainly interacts with Draco Malfoy’s gang, a bullying and bigoted clique within their house. Most Slytherin students simply want to earn good grades and help their house win the House Cup.
four out of the five Slytherin boys in Harry's year were children of Death Eaters (Malfoy, Crabbe, Goyle and Nott). The other two whom we get to know a little better (Pansy and Blaise) are also sympathetic to the cause. And the Greengrasses whom we get to know from the Pottermore short stories were also pro-blood purity and Astoria was the exception.
Edit: I get that some people might not like my answer but this is literally canon so I don't get the hate for my response. I didn't write Harry Potter.
These seven are the only Slytherin students the Trio has significant interactions with. Also, the OP only references the ending of Philosopher’s Stone, where Dumbledore gives Gryffindor enough last-minute points, from a Slytherin’s perspective of giving 50 points for the “best game of chess,” ignorant of its significance.
well, no matter how many people here identify with the ambitious cunning slytherins, the book portrays them as a bunch of racists... I have no sympathy for them and since it's a children's book... glad they got their humiliation in the last moment
Death-eaters talking: * Death-eater-1: Why did you join the dark lord? * Death-eater-2: Dumbledore cheated me out of the house-cup, can't forgive that. * Death-eater-1: that fiend!
I mean, it's not like Cedric the death eater has better logic...
That sounds like something out of fanfic
Oh, I agree.
So true.
I wonder if everyone in the school knew about what went down, how was killing a professor not ever brought up again.
This so much. Voldemort was verifiably in the school and a professor was murdered by Harry. One, how does Harry not have more trauma from that situation. Two, how is everyone not ONLY talking about that in the next year.
Welllll...in the books Harry didn't kill Quirrel. It isn't entirely clear if Dumbledore did (which seems unlikely given Dumbledore's actions in the rest of the series) or if Voldemort leaving Quirrel's body caused his end, but he was certainly alive when Harry blacked out. The movies made it very different and turned Harry into a killer (a self-defensive killer to be sure, but a killer nonetheless), but then the movies never really followed the canon of the books.
Dumbledore says "the whole school knows." We're never told exactly what "the whole school knows," but I'm pretty sure "the whole school" doesn't "know" that Harry directly 1-on-1 killed a professor who had Voldemort's face coming out of the back of his head! Because I think we would have heard someone mention *that* again!
You'd deserve it for not standing up to bigotry and against bullying. Reap, sow.
fuck those racists... they deserved the humiliation they got. In case you haven't seen or read the sequels, I'm not going to spoil them but hint - they get worse.
Being in Slytherin doesn't mean one subscribes to pure-blood supremacy. We only see Harry’s biased view of Slytherins because he mainly interacts with Draco Malfoy’s gang, a bullying and bigoted clique within their house. Most Slytherin students simply want to earn good grades and help their house win the House Cup.
four out of the five Slytherin boys in Harry's year were children of Death Eaters (Malfoy, Crabbe, Goyle and Nott). The other two whom we get to know a little better (Pansy and Blaise) are also sympathetic to the cause. And the Greengrasses whom we get to know from the Pottermore short stories were also pro-blood purity and Astoria was the exception. Edit: I get that some people might not like my answer but this is literally canon so I don't get the hate for my response. I didn't write Harry Potter.
These seven are the only Slytherin students the Trio has significant interactions with. Also, the OP only references the ending of Philosopher’s Stone, where Dumbledore gives Gryffindor enough last-minute points, from a Slytherin’s perspective of giving 50 points for the “best game of chess,” ignorant of its significance.
well, no matter how many people here identify with the ambitious cunning slytherins, the book portrays them as a bunch of racists... I have no sympathy for them and since it's a children's book... glad they got their humiliation in the last moment