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harry, 5th year
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HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX
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Anonymous asked:
not weird but like in ootp slytherins had their own version of the da but they didn’t get caught cuz they’re smart and also had umbridge’s trust and it just went completely under the radar
YOU R CORRECT ANON. I fully agree that there was a slytherin version bc the people in DA probably wouldn’t have allowed Slytherins 😌
I love this idea!
The slytherins could have avoided being caught by giving their DA an official name and interest that could act as a cover to their meetings, meaning if they were all caught together they could simply change what they were doing. Being slytherins and keen to do the job well they probably had a great lookout system to keep them from detection.
I also love the idea of Snape having a hand in setting it up. Not the illegal DADA club, but in bringing some students opposed to Voldemort’s ideals together. When Snape was at Hogwarts there seems to have been a ring of Slytherin students working to groom/recruit people for serving Voldemort, so Snape would perhaps be keen to make sure such a group didn’t have the same power while he was head of Slytherin. He may therefore secretly bring a group together to fight against pureblood ideology, acting as a counterweight to Voldemort’s recruiters, but crucially no Slytherin student knows its origin because Snape makes sure he avoids detection while setting it up.
This group then forms the Slytherin DA and tries to attract others to the cause, meeting under a fake name so Umbridge doesn’t find out. They also could form a fellow resistance group to the Order of the Phoenix, which seems to lack much Slytherin presence, making life difficult for the Death Eaters.
I never believed that all Slytherins were with Umbridge, but they were all generalized like the bad guys for like no reason. DA would highly benefit of Slytherins being with them but I guess prejudice :)
Right? JK* said “y’all evil” and all the gryffindor wannabes just believed it.