the reconciliation of the houses (Was: Hey! Yew!)

[meriaugust]

No: HPFGUIDX 90163

adi wrote:
I was thinking about the reconciliation of the houses a lot. 
According the sorting hat's new  song, there have been differences 
between the four houses ever since Slytherin left the school. I 
wonder if that means someone has to return to the school again to 
achieve the final reonciliation. Like, Slytherin's heir.

Meri here: Well, Slytherin's heir allready came to the school in Tom 
Riddle, and that didn't work out so well. Unless Tom Riddle had some 
long lost affair that we don't yet know about, he is (as DD said) the 
last Slytherin. But you make an excellent point. The four houses will 
have to stand united if Hogwarts is going to survive the second war, 
and the only way to do that is for the Gryffindors, Hufflepuffs and 
Ravenclaws to embrace and accept the Slytherins and vice versa. The 
first three have allready shown that they can unite against 
Slytherin, but the real challenge for them will be to bring that oft 
exlied house into the fold. Each house has its good qualities and its 
bad ones, and I personally can't wait to meet a redeeming Slytherin, 
someone who is resourseful and ambitious, but in a good way, because 
it would just be too one dimensional for JKR to have them all be 
evil, Malfoy loving gits. 
Meri (who is amusing herself between classes with thoughts of LV's 
illegitimate grandchild getting sorted into Hufflepuff next term)