he one thing that really bothers me in the last movie of harry potter.
First if you haven't seen the movie and don't want to be spoiled from some reason or another you have been warned.
So It has been a week since I saw the last installment of the Harry Potter series and I am not finally out of that glow of "Omg that was freaking awesome!" I still think it is awesome but I am no longer in a daze of how cool it was. Now that I have had time to think of the movie there is one thing that stands out and bothers me. This part bothered me in the book as well, but for totally different reasons.
Let me start with the book. If I remember incorrectly someone please tell me. So towards the end right before the big battle at Hogwarts, Harry reveals himself in the great hall and the first thing anyone says is for Pansy to yell for someone to grab him. And everyone shames her into silence. Then later they have the younger kids and anyone who does not want to fight escape through the secret tunnel in the hogs head and the whole house of Slytherin leaves.
Pansy speaking out didn't really bother me. I understood that she was a girl and under a lot of pressure from her parents who were probably Death Eaters. It also is a fact that Voldemort's side was winning and there was very little resistance to be had. He had the Ministry and Hogwarts under his thumb so she thought that getting harry was the best idea at the time.
What bothered me about that part was the fact that none of the Slytherin house stayed to fight. And I understand that a lot of those kids were scared because their family members were Death Eaters and did not want to fight them. But it can't be that the whole entire house of Slytherin had Death Eater parents. Does this mean that the whole house of Slytherin are cowards?
Now in the movie its a different story. Harry reveals himself in the great hall and a small skirmish happens Snape flees and Mcgonagall is bad ass. Then Voldemort does his voice in the head trick and tells everyone that if they give Harry over to him then Voldemort would leave them alone. Of corse Voldemort is most likely lying but Pansy doesn't know that so she yells for people to grab Harry and a whole bunch of people stand in front of harry protecting him from this one Slytherin girl. Then Mcgonagall tells the whole House of Slytherin that they can go down to the dungeons because one girl spoke out against hairy. The whole house files out of the great hall.
I remember when Mcgonagall sent the Slytherins out people cheered. Why did they cheer that the whole house got sent away because of one foolish seventeen year old girl? The reason why Pansy yelled out is a little different from the book. Voldemort gave a way to save the school and what is one person to the Hundreds of people in the school? But why does everyone else in her house get lumped with her like they yelled out as well? The Slytherins didn't even move when she said to grab Harry.
I know Mcgonagall has her faults but I never thought it was bias against the Slytherin house. She was friends with the head of the Slytherin house for years. She felt betrayed by Snape when he had to play more to the other side. So why would all the students in Slytherin get the same treatment as Pansy? I always thought of Mcgonagall as a teacher before anything else. Maybe if Mcgonagall had said something different like "If anyone shares the same views as Miss Parkinson they can head down to the dungeons." But she did not say that she said that the whole hose of Slytherin could follow Pansy down to the dungeons.
What do you guys think?
So It has been a week since I saw the last installment of the Harry Potter series and I am not finally out of that glow of "Omg that was freaking awesome!" I still think it is awesome but I am no longer in a daze of how cool it was. Now that I have had time to think of the movie there is one thing that stands out and bothers me. This part bothered me in the book as well, but for totally different reasons.
Let me start with the book. If I remember incorrectly someone please tell me. So towards the end right before the big battle at Hogwarts, Harry reveals himself in the great hall and the first thing anyone says is for Pansy to yell for someone to grab him. And everyone shames her into silence. Then later they have the younger kids and anyone who does not want to fight escape through the secret tunnel in the hogs head and the whole house of Slytherin leaves.
Pansy speaking out didn't really bother me. I understood that she was a girl and under a lot of pressure from her parents who were probably Death Eaters. It also is a fact that Voldemort's side was winning and there was very little resistance to be had. He had the Ministry and Hogwarts under his thumb so she thought that getting harry was the best idea at the time.
What bothered me about that part was the fact that none of the Slytherin house stayed to fight. And I understand that a lot of those kids were scared because their family members were Death Eaters and did not want to fight them. But it can't be that the whole entire house of Slytherin had Death Eater parents. Does this mean that the whole house of Slytherin are cowards?
Now in the movie its a different story. Harry reveals himself in the great hall and a small skirmish happens Snape flees and Mcgonagall is bad ass. Then Voldemort does his voice in the head trick and tells everyone that if they give Harry over to him then Voldemort would leave them alone. Of corse Voldemort is most likely lying but Pansy doesn't know that so she yells for people to grab Harry and a whole bunch of people stand in front of harry protecting him from this one Slytherin girl. Then Mcgonagall tells the whole House of Slytherin that they can go down to the dungeons because one girl spoke out against hairy. The whole house files out of the great hall.
I remember when Mcgonagall sent the Slytherins out people cheered. Why did they cheer that the whole house got sent away because of one foolish seventeen year old girl? The reason why Pansy yelled out is a little different from the book. Voldemort gave a way to save the school and what is one person to the Hundreds of people in the school? But why does everyone else in her house get lumped with her like they yelled out as well? The Slytherins didn't even move when she said to grab Harry.
I know Mcgonagall has her faults but I never thought it was bias against the Slytherin house. She was friends with the head of the Slytherin house for years. She felt betrayed by Snape when he had to play more to the other side. So why would all the students in Slytherin get the same treatment as Pansy? I always thought of Mcgonagall as a teacher before anything else. Maybe if Mcgonagall had said something different like "If anyone shares the same views as Miss Parkinson they can head down to the dungeons." But she did not say that she said that the whole hose of Slytherin could follow Pansy down to the dungeons.
What do you guys think?