Why did the founders retain Slytherin's house?

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No: HPFGUIDX 117827


Nora:

> Hufflepuff too, the Founder who said "I'll take the lot and teach 
all 
> of them"?  It seems that, if anyone, she comes off the best from 
the 
> Sorting Hat's Song in OotP.
> 
> I think it's still a distinction worth making between the kinds of 
> discrimination that Slytherin House embodies, the quality-based 
> conceptions of Ravenclaw and Gryffindor, and Helga's more open 
> policy.  Let's not collapse it into 'little further', because it's 
a  rather meaningful little further.


Alla:

Indeed, Nora. I agree that Helga comes out looking the best from the 
last Song, but even though Ravena and Godric chose their students 
based on particular qualities, these qualities are not exactly 
genetic.

You CAN work on being braver person than you are now. I think you 
can also work on being smarter person, although of course it is not 
always true.

But you can do NOTHING ,absolutely nothing to change who your 
ancestors were.


Nora:

> I don't agree with the contention that not having full 
incorporation 
> of non-human students in Hogwarts is racist.    
snip.

> This is not to say that wizarding society doesn't treat magical 
non-
> humans badly, because they do.  But the discrimination against 
them 
> is not the same as the discrimination against the magical human of 
> Muggle parentage.  Too many initial and situational conditions are 
> too different.   



Alla:

Do we even know that centaurs or goblins ever wanted ANYTHING to do 
with human educational system? Who knows , they probably have their 
own schools.

We don't know how discrimination against non-humans started. Was it 
a result of some kind of bitter war between the species? 
Did non-humans and humans EVER lived together not just peacefully, 
but as EQUALS?

I have more questions than answers.