Evil Slytherin and House System

[bibphile]

No: HPFGUIDX 67927

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Scott Santangelo 
<owlery2003 at y...> wrote:

> ------------------- 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.
> 
> 

I'm not sure.  I think I agree with Rebecca.  There's a good chance 
the house system will be abolished.  The main reason I think it will 
happen is the Sorting Hat's song.  I also think that if it happens 
it will be a good thing.

It does the school more harm than good, I think.  I think this 
mainly because the students are seperated by personality traits.

For example the atmosphere in Slytherin is "do whatever it takes to 
win."  This fosters the willingness to do bad things to win.  Most 
students are probably more willing to hurt somebody when they leave 
Slytherin than they were when they arrive.  Likewise, the atmosphere 
in Gryffindor seems to foster reckless and rash behavior.  That's 
why the students would benefit from being mixed up.

Dropping the house sytem won't make everyone pull together, but it 
could lead to (students) focusing more on people and less on houses 
in the future.  At Harry's sorting he thinks the Slytherin look 
unpleasant because he'd heard their reputation.  

Even if the house system is abolished there would still be evil 
people at Hogwarts.  There just wouldn't be the automatic assumtion 
of "Slytherin=bad."

If it does happen, I think it will happen in book 7 and for that 
reason it won't matter if it's boring because there won't be any 
books after that.  I don't thik it would be boring though.  There 
would still be bad guys; we just wouldn't have a clue who they were.

Like I said, I'm not sure the house system will end but I think 
there is a good chance.