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Oh, I'm well aware of the Draco trilogy, yeah. :) Though I am not in HP fandom, and therefore not in a position to guess whether that was a standard-setter or just an example for how the lad is perceived in said fandom.

And sure, the Slytherins we see in the books are a bunch of twonks. Which is my entire point. I'd like to see more Slytherins who aren't twonks. Part of me suspects that anybody who's in Slytherin and who's going to wind up halfway decent may be more likely to be a twonk in their childhood and adolescence, though; the closer to decent Slytherins may not show their true colors until they're actually grown up.

I find myself wondering, for example, whether Mad-Eye Moody might have been a Slytherin. So far I've seen no reference that says what House he might have been in as a youngster, but he certainly seems to have that idea of "willing to do whatever it takes to achieve his ends", and yet he still falls on the side of the light.