Snape=Judas?/House characteristics

[a_svirn]

No: HPFGUIDX 150770

> Magpie:
> 
> The Heir of Slytherin is obviously unacceptable, but then isn't 
the point 
> rather that heirs don't matter?  <snip>


a_svirn:
Frankly, I think they do matter very much. The heir certainly 
mattered for Slytherin, since he built in a chamber of secrets 
specially for the use of the said heir. It matters very much to the 
story-line that the arch-villain is not just another Slytherin, but 
the Founder's heir. It matters too that Harry although not a 
descendant of another Founder, yet so true a Gryffindor, that he 
could get the Gryffindor's sword from the Hat. 

The whole thing started a millennium ago because the admission 
requirements of the four founders proved to be incompatible and it 
is still the case. If the Hat could simply leave one of the criteria 
out and thus bring the desirable harmony, surely it would have been 
done by now? Apparently neither the Hat, nor the long line of 
successive headmasters has had the authority to do so.