Difference between Houses (was:Snape as infidel was Re: Kant and Snape...)

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No: HPFGUIDX 150412

> Pippin: 
> On the bridge of the Enterprise there's diversity but no          
> difference: 
> no money, no politics, no religion, no wars on Earth, no family    
> life, no disputes over gender roles or race relations -- nothing, 
> in short, that makes diversity hard to manage in real life.

Betsy Hp:
I seem to recall some clashes between Spock and McCoy over human vs. 
vulcan life theories. <g>  But yeah, the differences there were more 
philosophical than cultural.  Hogwarts gets to deal with both.

> >>Pippin: 
> The Houses are separated by more than personal style -- they
> are separated by real, substantive differences over how to live.   
> Their challenge is to keep Voldemort from manipulating these      
> rivalries to set them against one another. I think it can be done -
> - but  only if they agree to be equal partners in the fight       
> despite their honest feeling that their side of the issue is right 
> and any good person would see it that way.

Betsy Hp:
There are differences, yes.  But I think they've become exaggerated 
for Harry (especially with Slytherin).  It's notable, IMO, that we 
don't know the houses of most of the adult characters.  Is Rita a 
Slytherin or a Ravenclaw?  Is Fudge a Hufflepuff?  What house was 
Lockhart in?

There is a difference between how a Ravenclaw would tackle a 
particular problem and how a Slytherin would, I suppose.  Though it 
would also depend on the particular person.  Draco would differ from 
Millicent, for example, though they're both in the same house.

So, maybe the differences aren't really that huge.  Perhaps they 
*do* tend more towards personal style than deep-seated philosophy.  
The difference between going at something head on, or sliding up 
around it, etc.  I'm not sure that I've seen differences deeper than 
that, between the actual houses, I mean.

Betsy Hp