Slytherin & Gryffindor: Misconceptions

[esmith222002]

No: HPFGUIDX 123552


I have always held several beliefs about SS (as I'm sure has 
everyone).

1. He is inherently evil - like LV
2. He left Hogwart's due to an agreement to admit 'impure' 
wizards/witches
3. He created the COS to purge the school of 'impure' blood
4. The great frienship between GG and SS, does not make sense

However, I was reading COS, yesterday. I was attempting, for the 
zillionth time, to find the link between Books 2 & 6. I came across 
Professor Binn's description of the COS and suddenley, there seemed 
an alternative explanantion for my potential misconceptions.

1. SS was worried about Muggle attitudes to witches and wizards. I do 
not think he was worried about 'purity of blood' as much as he was 
worried about a potential threat to Hogwarts.
2. SS was worried that admittance of 'impure' wizards would 
eventually alert the Muggleworld to Hogwarts existence and therefore 
threaten that existence. 
3. What if SS created the COS as a protective mechanism. As a 
founder, he must have loved Hogwart and would not want it destroyed. 
If Muggle's ever threatened Hogwarts, then the heir of Slytherin 
could use the Basilisk to purge the school of Muggle invaders!!
4. All the above would suggest that SS was an honourable wizard and 
therefore a friendship between GG and SS is more likely. Also, if GG 
is the HBP (as has been suggested) it would explain why he would not 
budge on the issue of 'blood purity'.

Read the chapter and let me know what you think!! (Somewhere in the 
middle of COS!).

Interestingly, JKR could reveal all this in Book 6 without really 
giving us any further clues to the eventual outcome!

Brothergib