The Princes Tale

[susan4508]

No: HPFGUIDX 172641

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "marika_thestral"
<marika_thestral at ...> wrote:
>
> "And I can't believe that Hogwarts (in the Epiloge) kept sorting people
> into Houses. Not because Voldemort suggested that Slytherin was the
> only necessary house to keep, but for the same reason that Dumbledore
> told Snape that sometimes he thought it was too early to sort at the
> age of 11(DH p. 545), but I wish to add that besides being too early
> it also prevents Slytherins to choose the good path. The parts of you
> that are bad will grow worse since people around you are not very
> good. To me is seems like ending up in Slytherin is like spending time
> in prison (where serious criminals  influence the less serious ones to
> become even worse) - but before you actually have comitted any crimes."


But notice the difference when Harry tells his son that the bravest
man he ever met had been a Slytherin. I take that to mean that there
has been a change of attitude towards Slytherin over the ensuing 19
years. (Bad analogy: sort of like how Germany and the average German
slowly came out of the shadow of Hitler--there was a history of
violence and hatred, but, in the main, the country and its people
showed themselves to have moved beyond that hatred.)

I'm sure there are still people like the Malfoys who prefer the pureblood wizarding families, but they've seen the devastation that can be caused by hatred. After what Draco saw as a teenager living with the Death Eaters, I seriously doubt he would condone his kid being any sort of neo-Death Eater. So while Hogwarts still sorts into houses and there may be vestiges of resentment, there's probably not the high level of hatred that there once was.

Susan