Tom Riddle's mother - an important question...

[D.G.]

No: HPFGUIDX 68991

I'm definitely in the "Zero Tolerance For Slytherin" camp -- but I 
can't help wondering:  if, in fact, he's as evil as his descendents 
seem to indicate (and, for that matter, as his snake-planting seems 
to prove), then how/why does Hogwart's still have a House named for 
him?  Wouldn't it have been possible (and advisable) for the 
administration to agree that their school should not be represented 
by the legacy of a man who turned to the Dark Side, or who urged some 
of his followers to do so?

But then, on the other hand, the House of Slytherin does tend to 
attract a lot of well-heeled Purebloods to the school, does not?  
[Visualize here the appropriate image of Hogwarts administrators 
holding their noses while accepting the fistfuls of money that these 
well-heeled Purebloods bring with them.] Perhaps Hogwart's --like 
many a Muggle institution-- continues to harbor unsavory and/or 
academically unworthy elements on its campus, simply because it needs 
the money that the children of those alumni and/or Founding Fathers 
will bring.

I wonder what the Wizard version of a "Gentleman's C" might be --

D.G. ("JazzmanChgo")