The permanent problem with Slytherin House

[Steve]

No: HPFGUIDX 99282

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, Rebecca Stephens
<rsteph1981 at y...> wrote:
> 
> --- BrwNeil at a... wrote:
> > Slytherin House must cease to exist. :)
> 

> Rebecca:
>
> I think all houses must cease to exist.  The sorting hat says houses 
> are bad, and I trust it.
> 
> 
> =====

bboy_mn:

Here is an interesting thought to ponder, although it addresses the
thread only indirectly.

'Houses' tend to develope personalities even when the residents aren't
sorted according to strict cirteria. At least that's what I've
observed based on my own experience in my college days.

I suspect that even if they stopped using the Sorting Hat, and divided
new students into houses by some other more general and broad
parameters very little would change.

The school would still have four 'residence halls' for housing
students, and I would logically guess that the houses or halls would
retain the name of their founders. Gryffindor House would become
Gryffindor Residence Tower; Ravenclaw Residence Tower, Hufflepuff
Hall, and Slytherin Hall.

There would still be fierce competition between the
houses/halls/towers for the House Cup and for the Quidditch Cup.

Back to my main point that Houses/Halls/Towers tend to develope
personality associations even when students are assigned randomly. On
college campuses various Residence Halls and Fraternity Houses have a
reputation for being a certain way; the jock house, the brainiac
house, the party house, etc.... They may not preceive themselves that
way, but none the less, to the campus in general these preceptions exits.

My secondary point is that even if they stopped using the Sorting Hat,
many of the problems we see at Hogwarts would still exist because they
are more a reflection of human nature than a reflection of the
preceived division created by The Hat.

Don't know what that adds, but there it is.


bboy_mn