Can't buy esteem

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 113926

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Freud" <geekessgoddess at y...> 
wrote:
snip.

> By having the Sorting Hat divide some young kids into Slytherin in 
> the first place, isn't Hogwarts essentially guaranteeing the 
molding 
> and shaping of dark wizards?  Why?  Why put young wizards and 
> witches who are already pre-disposed to have ethically-challenged 
> ideas, into a group where their anti-societal traits are 
> reinforced?  Why not expose them to different types of thinking?


Alla:

Yes, yes, yes. Slytherin ideology is  absolutely horrible, but why 
Sorting Hat specificlaly and Hogwarts as a magical being (I always 
imagine the castle being alive in its own right as some kind of 
magical being) does not put up a fight for its new students and let 
them go to Slytherin every year, I am not sure.

Maybe at the end we will just learn that Houses' dissolution is the 
best idea to go with.