Why did the founders retain Slytherin's house?

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No: HPFGUIDX 117829


> Pippin:
> 'Fraid so. Unless "the lot" includes werewolves and mixed race 
> children, who seem to be conspicuously absent.
>
Alla:

What do you mean by "mixed race' in this context?

Pippin:

>  And what comes from the mouths of Gryffindor-educated 
> children is hardly better than Draco's spouting, though indeed 
> they'd never dream of saying things like that about Muggleborns. 
> 
> Hermione: "Don't trust him, he's a werewolf!"
> Ron: "Get away from me, werewolf!"
> Hermione: " I've never really liked horses." (referring to Firenze)


Alla:

Oh, Pippin, Hermione deserves some credit though, does not she? 
After all she covered for Remus ever since she learned that he is 
werewolf. I think that even though she should not have said that, 
she could be excused because of fear for their lives.

Ron...hmmm. Yeah, he could be smacked more than Hermione .

Yes, "I never liked horses" is very bad remark, very bad. :)



Pippin:
> Also there's this, from JKR at Albert Hall:
> 
> JK Rowling:
> When he (Harry) first entered the world (of Magic) he had of 
> course expected it to (after spending time with the Dursley's) be 
> this magical wonderland and almost immediately he wandered 
> into Draco Malfoy in the robe shop and found out that Wizards 
> are racist and slowly but surely he's found out that many people 
> in power in the Wizarding World are just as corrupt and nasty as 
> they are in our world. 
> ---
> Wizards are racist. Not Slytherins are racist, or purebloods are 
> racist. 


Alla:

I do think that in this context it is possible that she meant 
purebloods, because she gaves Malfoy as an example in the same 
sentence. We do see the examples of very tolerant wisard after all, 
but even if she meant that WW in the whole is racist, to me it only 
raises another hint as to the very radical change in the society in 
general at the end, because again it raises a question whether such 
society is worth saving at all