Why did the founders retain Slytherin's house?

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 117858


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Hannah" 
<hannahmarder at y...> wrote:

> Really, when you look at it dispassionately, the WW is a rather 
 nasty place, a sort of charicature of the worst elements of real 
 world society.  Riddled with despotism, prejudice of every kind,   
and with an apparently very shaky grip on human rights, fair 
trials, democracy, or freedom of speech.  It sounds like a prime 
candidate  for the 'axis of evil!'<

On the other hand, as Susan pointed out in 117831, it's a much 
more enlightened society about  skin color , sexual orientation 
and gender. I sometimes wonder if Hermione doesn't feel she's 
escaped one glass ceiling only to smack her head into another. 

I think the point is that the categories we use to sort  people  are 
more artificial than we think, and our reactions to the Other are 
conditioned by things we cannot control. Therefore if we wish to 
develop a just society we must all be educated in tolerance, 
regardless of how open-minded we like to think we are.

Pippin