Muggleborns choosing WW (was: Why did the founders retain Slytherin's house?)

[cubfanbudwoman]

No: HPFGUIDX 117951


SSSusan:
> > From a purely practical standpoint, I can't imagine many Muggle-
> > born witch-or-wizards *not* wanting to join the WW. 
> snip.
> > And if after said witch-or-wizard "got to" the WW, s/he 
> > discovered problematic aspects of it, what's the difference 
> > between that and the RW?  There is racism, tyranny, hatred, an 
> > AIDS epidemic, economic inequity, and all manner of other 
> > depressing problems in the RW.  I don't see any difference, 
> > really, in the sense that there are problems in both worlds.  If 
> > one is unhappy with things in *either* world, they can be 
> > addressed in the same manner:  work for change.
 
Alla:
> Oh, I agree very much Susan, I think that advantages for 
> muggleborns joining WW are much greater than for them to stay away.
> 
> What I am still not getting the satisfactory (for me ) answer is 
> whether it is possible that non-human species did not want to do 
> much with humans at all in the first place? And accordingly it 
> went downhill from there. I am not saying that it was non-humans 
> fault, but could it be that they started it?
> 
> If it is racism of humans, then so be it and it definitely needs 
> to be changed at the end of the series, IMO, but what if it is 
> started as something different?
> What is your opinion on this one?


SSSusan:
Wow.  I wish I knew what my opinion was, Alla, but I'm not sure I've 
thought enough about this particular possibility to have much of 
one.  I suppose we can assume, from FB as well as the HPs, that 
centaurs elected to separate themselves from humans.  But goblins?  
The history of the house elves?  Giants?  Who knows?

I defer to others with deeper thoughts on this!

Siriusly Snapey Susan