[HPforGrownups] Re: Tom Riddle's mother - an important question...

[Gregory Carr]

No: HPFGUIDX 69221

  D.G. ("JazzmanChgo") wrote:

  >>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. >>>>>



  Rastabana (me)
  I agree with much of what was said before, but I was under the impression
that not much of a choice was given as to who gets into Hogwart's or not. As
Hagrid said, Harry's name was down to attend since the day he was born, ( I
presume by some magical device that detects the births of a magical child,
or something like that). I don't think the adminisration could then refuse
admission even if the kid is from the darkest family imaginable.