Let's burn down the Houses

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 107211

> Demetra wrote:
> 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.

Carol adds:
It just occurred to me that the Head of Slytherin House (Snape) is
going to have a bit of an unfair burden next year as well. Imagine
having four of your students with fathers in Azkaban, blaming everyone
and everything except Voldemort (and particularly Harry Potter). No
one else has students seething with resentment in addition to their
pureblood prejudices. I wouldn't want to be in Snape's position even
without his usual teaching duties and services to the Order and
Dumbledore.

Carol