Thing you're changing: The Slytherins came back How do you think this would have affected the outcome of the books? This is a minor change in the final chapters of Deathly Hallows, but the one thing I really wish had been different. In interviews JKR had mentioned that Slughorn came back with students from Slytherin house, but the book never explicitly mentioned as much. I think this would have better driven JKR's point home, that there is no black and white and even Harry's schoolboy biases are just that: biases. I feel like if in the books this fact had been explicitly mentioned, it could have been one more thing that Harry told Albus as proof that being a Slytherin was okay.
More than what happens within Harry's world, however, I think doing so would have been thematically in line with all the lessons that JKR had been trying to give about prejudice. She does such a great job challenging everyone's preconceived notions within the world, even one that nobody would have thought to think twice about like house-elves, but I think she could have done more in pointing out the biases that protagonists and readers may have formed against Slytherin house.
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How do you think this would have affected the outcome of the books? This is a minor change in the final chapters of Deathly Hallows, but the one thing I really wish had been different. In interviews JKR had mentioned that Slughorn came back with students from Slytherin house, but the book never explicitly mentioned as much. I think this would have better driven JKR's point home, that there is no black and white and even Harry's schoolboy biases are just that: biases. I feel like if in the books this fact had been explicitly mentioned, it could have been one more thing that Harry told Albus as proof that being a Slytherin was okay.
More than what happens within Harry's world, however, I think doing so would have been thematically in line with all the lessons that JKR had been trying to give about prejudice. She does such a great job challenging everyone's preconceived notions within the world, even one that nobody would have thought to think twice about like house-elves, but I think she could have done more in pointing out the biases that protagonists and readers may have formed against Slytherin house.
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