Sorting and House System

[fitzchivalryhk]

No: HPFGUIDX 172852

One of the most unsatisfying point in Deathly Hallows for many
HPfGUers is the continual/approval of the Sorting system after the
Voldemort war. In DH, by showing that none of the current Slytherin
students was good enough to join the other Houses to fight against
Voldemort, and discounting other Slytherins as "Griffindor at heart"
(i.e. Snape), the book seems to send a message to people that as long
as you are categorized as one type of people (namely, Slytherin) at
the age of 11, you are a coward or villain for life.

I find this type of message disturbing, and am surprised that, even
though the Sorting Hat's song in previous years seem to disapprove
this type of segregation, the epilogue shows that the system is
allowed to remain unchanged at least for the next 19 years.

For those who share the point of view that the Sorting and House
System of Hogwarts is not beneficial for the wizarding society and its
children, what do you think can be done to change it?
Abolishing the House system all together?
Eliminate the Slytherin House?
Abolish Sorting by the Sorting Hat and put the students randomly into
each house?
Change the ideological implication that permeates the house system?
Put a pro-equality teacher as the Head of Slytherin to change the
pro-pure-blood atmosphere of the House?
Other suggestions? :)

fitz