[HPforGrownups] OOTP: Still Catching Up..

[EnsTren at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 67652

In a message dated 7/5/2003 3:25:43 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
rainbow at rainbowbrite.net (Katy) writes:


> 5) Will book #7 be the end of Slytherin house? I mean really, take your
> thoughts to the end of this series...the way it must end...no matter what
> else happens...Voldemort must be killed with no chance of return. Thus
> proving that he was, at one point, Tom Riddle...a Slytherin (most likely)

> who went extremely bad. And even if he wasn't a Slyth, he had the belief
> system of a Slyth. The last Heir of Slytherin will be gone and, by that
> point, people MUST realize how horrible and evil that belief system is. So
> WHY would Slytherin house be kept around at Hogwarts? If it is, another "Tom
> Riddle" could easily go down the same horrific path! And while i realize
> that evil can errupt out of the most innocent of places...why keep around a
> breeding ground for evil that could be easily destroyed?
> 


Whoa!  Hold Up There!  Slytherin?  Evil?  Breeding grounds for Dark?  Uhmn, 
no.  Definetly not.  We've primarily seen curent Slytherins who have been 
poisoned by Voldemort. (As in their parents passed down their tainted ideas)

Point One: Binns Says that Salazar considered muggle-borns to be 
"untrustworty" not 'disgusting' not 'dirty,' simply untrustworthy.

Point Two: Muggles did attempt to burn Wiches at the stake.

            --Conclusion: Muggles wanted to kill Wizards and Witches at the 
time.  And I think we can agree that first years wouldn't know how to cast the 
charm to save themselves


Point Three: Sorting Hat SAYS Godric and Salazar were "best friends"

Point Four: Salazar LEFT Hogwarts because of an Argument.

              --Conclusion: He didn't withdraw his house, he didn't stay 
which could have dragged the school down, he left, sacrificing his own ideals and 
basically admiting defeat in an argument for the good of the many.


Point Five: Hagrid trusted Tom enough to consider him a friend.

Point Six: Tom was in the Slytherin house.

               --Conclusion: The House animosity didn't always exist.

Point Seven: Harry is Very Slytherin.

                 --Cunning and Ambition isn't bad, and can work along side 
Courage and honnor.


Nemi
       --Black Dragon
       --Slasher and Yaoist
       --Utterly Psycotic


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