~ooO Neutral : Dean Thomas Ooo~
Dean Thomas was an artist, first and foremost. He wasn't the best student but he had always spent extra effort learning the spells that would be most useful for his future artistic career. And as an artist he had developed a knack for paying attention to details. In art, little details could make or kill a piece. Dean had learnt the hard way that paying attention to the details mattered in real life as well.
In the past it had been too easy to go with the crowd, to follow the popular trend, to repeat what everyone was saying. Dean had done that himself when he was a student in Hogwarts and now, when he was actually dissecting his Hogwarts years, he felt shame: at himself, at his House, at the school in general. He remembered all the times Gryffindor and all the Houses turned against Harry Potter, because he was lying (Triwizard Tournament, Slytherin's Heir) and he couldn't be right (the Dark Lords return at the end of Fourth Year), and each and every time it turned out to be true. Even knowing Harry was right some of them had still turned against him when the chips were down (Umbridge).
Dean was an adult now and determined to form his own opinions and share his own views. He was going to do the smart thing and adopt a wait-and-see attitude. He was not going to play sheep, follow the crowd, and echo popular sentiment. He was not going to call Hermione Granger's husband evil, just because he was Salazar Slytherin. He remembered what the witch had done to Dolores Umbridge. She'd probably do worse if anyone dared to attack her husband. Salazar Slytherin might be a git, but if he's polite, not murderous and out to enslave and destroy everyone, he could be as gitty as he wanted to be. If Hermione wanted, she could work on making him ungitty.
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