Slytherin House

[Audra1976 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 46938

wittchway at yahoo.com writes:
> Supposedly the schools been around for a 1000yrs and the four 
> founders had aparting of the way with Slytherin then. Why didn't they 
> just drop him then and his name from the school?

Me:

I would say because Slytherin played a very important role in the founding of 
Hogwarts, at least just as much as Gryffindor, Ravenclaw, and Hufflepuff did. 
 It would have been wrong just to drop his name from the school.  Or here's 
another take on it:  Slytherin would have completely invalidated a witch or 
wizard based on one aspect, the fact that she or he was muggleborn.  If G, R, 
and H were to invalidate Slytherin's entire contribution to the founding of 
the school based on one aspect, his belief that muggleborns should not be 
allowed to attend, then G, R, and H would be guilty of the same sin.

Audra


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