Will the Slytherins leave Hogwarts ?

[delwynmarch]

No: HPFGUIDX 106694

In OoP, the Sorting Hat's new song contains a lot of interesting
insights, but as I was reading out tonight, the one that touched me
most was this one passage :
"So Hogwarts worked in harmony
for several happy years,
but then discord crept among us
feeding on our faults and fears.
The Houses that, like pillars four,
had once held up our school,
now turned upon each other and,
divided, sought to rule.
And for a while it seemed the school
must meet an early end,
what with dueling and with fighting
and the clash of friend on friend.
And at last there came a morning
when old Slytherin departed
and though the fighting then died out
he left us quite downhearted.
And never since the founders four
were whittled down to three
have the Houses been united
as they once were meant to be. "

We've never seen the Houses work together in harmony. But we sure have
seen discord creep among the students. We've seen the Houses try to
rule, especially Slytherin and Gryffindor. We've seen dueling and
fighting and clashing of friend on friend, and things only seem to get
worse as time passes. In OoP, some students from different Houses try
to work together, but they have problems getting along (the animosity
between the Twins and Zacharias Smith) even though their motivation is
pretty strong. And none of them seem able to get over their common
dislike of the Slytherins.

With LV out in the open, I'm guessing that those problems are only
going to increase. The pressure on the Slytherins in particular will
become nearly unbearable, and I'm afraid the other Houses won't do
much to help them. So my concern is this : will we see the day when
the Slytherins will decide to leave the school for good, just like old
Slytherin did ? And what effects would it have on the remaining students ?

Del