[HPforGrownups] Re: Evil Slytherin

[Scott Santangelo]

No: HPFGUIDX 67916

Rebecca Stephens <rsteph1981 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> -------------Owlery2003 commented:
> 
> Do away with the school Houses?! VERY UNLIKELY. Talk
> about tinkering with time-honored traditions - the
> sorting hat would have a cow! I agree with Mark that
> the houses serve a real purpose of preparing
> students for the real world. They also create the
> competitive academic atmosphere that makes Hogwarts
> what it is. The alums of the school would go
> ballistic, too if the house systems were dropped.
> What about the house ghosts, common rooms and etc?
> The system's not broke, so why fix it? As to the
> sorting hat's prediction, that's all very do-able
> within the context of the existing house system, and
> actually adds to the drama of the usually competing
> houses working together against some external
> threat.


------------------- Rebecca said:

Sounded to me like the Sorting Hat wanted to do away
with houses.  It seemed to think the system was
broken.  It said "I worry that it's wrong" about
sorting the kids and that "sorting might bring the end
I fear"

I wouldn't bet on the abolishment of the house system
by the end of the series, but I sure wouldn't bet
against it.

--------------------- Owlery 2003 replied:

Went back to canon and found you're spot on there. Lots of references that give room for the next two books. Still, can't imagine dropping the House system - it's just too "politically correct." No winners or losers, no good or evil, everyone pulls together - blah! I'll bet against it despite the (apparently even) odds.



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