Houses Unite!

[lizvega2]

No: HPFGUIDX 90164

I know I've harped on this issue before, with very little interest 
from the rest of you- which is fine- I don't mind pontificating for 
my own amusement! 

The theme of 'unity among the houses' started becoming clear around 
book four, possibly sooner- my indepth reading sometimes gets 
shallow- first beginning with the TriWizard tournament, which I 
believe took place simply for the purpose of Dumbledore getting 
Beauxbaton and Durmstrang together because he knew Volderot was 
getting more powerful, just like he brought Moody to the school, as 
a form of a protection for Harry. 

Hermione states somewhere in GOF that the purpose of the tournament 
was to create unity between the wizarding schools, and it hadn't 
been held in how many hundreds of years before? What a coincidence 
that Dumbledore, I'm assuming, went to so much trouble to reinstate 
it. Karkaroff basically says so after Harry is made champion. So, 
Dumbledore finds out from Harry at the end of Book 3 that Trelawney 
predicted Wormtail scurrying off, and helping Volderot to power 
again- and she did say that he would become more powerful than 
before. Very soon after term ended, maybe before even, DD started 
putting things together as a means of precautionary measures. He 
worked to reinstate the triwizard tournament to strengthen the ties 
between the three largest wizarding schools, and he brought Moody to 
school- wonder what else he did? At the end of book 4, DD gives his 
speech about UNITING and CHOOSING. He says that volderot's power is 
held in his ability to create tension and mistrust in the wizarding 
community.

At the beginning of book 5 the sorting hat talks about how when the 
founders first created the school they were the best of friends. The 
hat states specifically that gryffindor and slytherin were BEST 
friends while ravenclaw and hufflepuff were best friends. And, how 
the houses were torn apart by bickering. Can anyone imagine 
slytherin and gryffindor being best friends now?

It's been pounded into our heads just  how much slytherin and 
gryffindor hate each other. Throughout all five books, the anamosity 
is present and reinforced by jo. Doesn't Ron joke after the sorting 
in book 5, after Hermione makes the comment about unity, that he 
wouldn't ever become friends with slytherin's?

But, it seems that perhaps everything is building toward that 
outcome. The DA was a good way to get Harry to interact with the 
ravenclaws, and hufflepuffs. It's stated that ravenclaw and 
hufflepuff will cheer for gryffindor before they'll cheer for the 
slytherin's- i think in the first book at the end. 

So, even if all of the houses have to unite there will still be 
stragglers- some, like malfoy and the thugs and that cow parkinson- 
probably won't join our side- but what about the rest of the 
slytherin house mates? Are they all like Malfoy? I can't recall one 
episode that Harry has had with a slytherin that has been positive, 
so, what will finally convince Harry and Ron to forget about how 
much they hate Slytherin?

Perhaps they need to find out about some decent 
slytherin's......?????