Hm. While QQ was widely praised as being a great teacher, I don’t think anyone missed the fact that he was radiating a constant aura of evil (before the fact that as the Defense Professor he was guaranteed to be evil by definition). I think his contribution to public perception would have been “some Slytherins are incredibly badass” rather than “some Slytherins are good”.
I’m not sure if there was a general “antihero or villain?” buzz about QQ or if Harry was the only person who thought the former. Luckily, affirmatively making him a hero works either way.
“I shall not name any names,” said the old witch. “But I shall tell a story, and see if it sounds familiar.” Amelia Bones looked back down, turning to the next parchment. “Born 1927, entered Hogwarts in 1938, sorted into Slytherin, graduated 1945.
“Has your confederacy deduced who I really am?” The words were spoken with deceptive mildness.
“Yes, in fact. Now—”
Pure magic, pure power crashed into the room like a flash of lightning, like a thunderclap echoing about her ears that deafened her other senses, the papers on her desk blown aside not by any conjured wind but by the sheer raw force of arcane might.
Then the power subsided, leaving only Hermione Granger’s death certificates drifting down through the air to the floor.
“I am David Monroe, who fought Voldemort,” the man said, still in mild tones. “Heed my words. The boy cannot be allowed to continue in this state of mind.
Though we don’t know for sure what McGonagal and the rest of the “confederacy” really believes.
I had long ago taken my vengeance on David Monroe—he was an annoyance from my year in Slytherin—so I bethought to also steal his identity, and wipe out his family to make myself heir of his House.
Hm. While QQ was widely praised as being a great teacher, I don’t think anyone missed the fact that he was radiating a constant aura of evil (before the fact that as the Defense Professor he was guaranteed to be evil by definition). I think his contribution to public perception would have been “some Slytherins are incredibly badass” rather than “some Slytherins are good”.
I’m not sure if there was a general “antihero or villain?” buzz about QQ or if Harry was the only person who thought the former. Luckily, affirmatively making him a hero works either way.
Though, what was David Monroe’s House?
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Though we don’t know for sure what McGonagal and the rest of the “confederacy” really believes.
One of this comment’s third cousins says that Monroe was a Slytherin.
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