Let's burn down the Houses

[demetra1225]

No: HPFGUIDX 106896

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "delwynmarch" 
<delwynmarch at y...> wrote:
> Another question is : why would a Slytherin have a change of heart 
to
> start with ? Take Draco for example : raised in the Dark Arts, and
> Sorted in a House that doesn't mind them. Why should he ever come to
> realise that he's had it wrong all his life ? Why should he suddenly
> start doubting his 3 most important authority figures : his parents
> and his Head of House ?
> 
Demetra:
At the risk of making a "me too" post, I completely agree with Del.  
I question the practice of taking children who have been raised with 
a set of beliefs (however twisted those beliefs might be) and put 
them in a house comprised of others who have been raised with the 
same beliefs.  Not to mention that members of the other houses are 
suspicious of them and inter-house cooperation is not exactly 
encouraged.  Where would these kids ever learn about other viewpoints 
so that they could have a change of heart?  
The books stress the importance of choice, but to choose to reject 
one way of thinking, you have to be exposed to and understand a 
different way of thinking.  I don't think that can be accomplished by 
sharing a couple of classes with another house.  
I do hope that we find out in later books that Snape is doing 
something behing the scenes to discourage the Slytherins from 
following the DE path, because otherwise I think that those kids were 
shortchanged by the whole sorting system.