The permanent problem with Slytherin House

[potioncat]

No: HPFGUIDX 99258

 Jo Ann wrote:
> I'm not sure I believe that he personally built the Chamber of 
Secrets, or if 
> he did, that he stocked it with a Basilisk and left it for an Heir 
to find 
> and carry on his "noble work."  He could have had a personal 
dislike for 
> Muggle-born students that had nothing to do with "purity of blood" 
and everything to 
> do with the fact that magic was seen by Muggles at the time as the 
tool of the 
> Devil.


Potioncat:
It takes two HGfGU members to change a light bulb.  One to change it 
and one to come behind and change it again.  That's what I did.  
Wrote a similar comment to Jo Ann's then proptly read her post.  Oh, 
well, it's good to know I'm not totally out of it in ideas!

I do think the purity of blood has been the major problem for 
Slytherin House.  But I agree, I think it started out as "let's wait 
until the magic has run a generation or two before allowing the magic 
child in" and turned into "Muggle blood is dirty blood."

The idea that comes up, both in canon and in posts, that those in 
Slyterin House are inately evil bothers me. And to me, makes no 
sense.  Because if that was the intent, why wouldn't all Slytherin 
students be promptly expelled or transferred to a Magical St. Brutus'?

Potioncat who apologizes for this "me too" post.