Salazar’s Separation & the Chamber of Secrets (was Re:The Falling-Out of the Fou

[M.Clifford]

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> Valky wrote (huge snip):
> I think Salazar was most likely a good person (his friends loved him 
> and mourned his leaving), but his love of ambition unbalanced his 
> path in life (he created the chamber of secrets and he lost himself 
> in murderous intent).
> 
> 
> Kemper now:  
> 
> I don't see Salazar as an ambitious man.  How many ambitious men in 
> the world want to become teachers? 

Valky:
Maybe, but evidently the legacy of his house is a tradition of high
regard to ambition, where did that come from if not, at least in part,
from the founder of the House.

Kemper:
> He was a teacher who didn't 
> wanted to teach Muggleborns.  What's wrong with that?  Gordic didn't 
> want to teach cowards.  Rowena didn't want to teach dumb-dumbs.  Why 
> is no one having a fit about that discrimination? 

Valky:
Possibly you overlooked my having mentioned that Rowena and Godric
were equally self righteous as Slazar about who they (*WE*) should
teach. Helga was apparently the voice of reason on that account and
all the founders, it seemed, followed her lead.

Unfortunately they couldn't keep it together. I am supposing it was
because although they were able to concede the rightness of Ms
Hufflepuff's argument, the way they felt originally was never truly
dealt with.

  
> Kemper: 
> what's wrong with wanting to teach purebloods?  Is it because it's 
> xenophobic or maybe nepotistic?  But then is wanting to teach only 
> the courageous wrong because of its narrow-minded favoritism towards 
> a single personality trait?  Is wanting to teach only the smart kids 
> intellectual elitism?
> 

Valky:
I think they all agreed it was not entirely wrong to have different
values, but they didn't hold the fort for long. Only a few years
according to COS.

"For a few years, the founders worked in harmony together...."

And there seemed definitely to be a connection between the rift and
the values that the founders had originally espoused.

"....A rift began to grow between Slytherin and the others. Slytherin
wished to be more selective about the students admitted to Hogwarts.
He believed that magical learning should be kept within all-magic
families.
He disliked taking students of Muggle parentage, believing them to be
untrustworthy. After a while, there was a serious argument on the
subject between Slytherin and Gryffindor, and Slytherin left the
school."

COS Chapter nine

> Kemper:
> I also don't see his murderous intent.  Did Salazar set the Basilisk 
> on Muggleborns or anyone for that matter?

Valky:
 But there is still the myth that Salazar intended the Basilisk to be
released by his heir:

"Slytherin, according to the legend, sealed the Chamber of Secrets
so that none would be able to open it until his own true heir arrived
at the school. The heir alone would be able to unseal the Chamber of
Secrets, unleash the horror within, and use it to purge the school of
all who were unworthy to study magic." Professor Binns COS

It may in future books be proved just a myth, but as it stands there
is no proof of that yet.