Scapegoating Slytherin - The Moral Majority

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Betsy Hp:
 But Slytherin's role as Hogwarts scapegoat is a 
> very bad thing, IMO.  Totally weakening for the school, and 
> therefore for the British WW.  Healing really does need to occur, 
> and I think it will have to come from Harry.  I think he will have 
> to see the good in Slytherin, thereby allowing the WW and 
Slytherin 
> itself, to see the good in Slytherin.  And I also think that Draco 
> is going to be the representative of that healing.
> 
snip...
> But I think that once the healing occurs, and Slytherin is no 
longer 
> stigmatized, we'll still have the houses.  They'll just finally be 
> equal.  Not perfect harmony, of course.  The houses will raise and 
> fall depending on headmasters and students, but no one house will 
> constantly fill the bottom role.  At least, that's my hope. <g>


Correct me if I'm wrong but didn't Slytherin win the house cup for 7 
years before Harry came? And wasn't Gryffindor out the running for 
the Quidditch cup for a similar time period (McGonagall mentions it 
in PoA)?

Before Harry came Slytherin was the top dog or that was the 
impression that I got. So really your dream of houses raising and 
falling depending on students has already happened...Slytherin fall 
and Gryffindor rose with the coming of Harry. 

The other houses haven't seemed to have much problem turning on 
Harry, a Gryffindor, from time to time and often that puts them on 
the same side as Slytherin. 

IMO the problem is that there really doesn't seem to be a 4 way race

it's either Gryffindor or Slytherin. 

Quick_Silver71