Disappointment Was: Deaths in DH WAS: Re: Dumbledore (but more Snape)

[Jen Reese]

No: HPFGUIDX 177584

> Julie:
> > Still, I agree that there shouldn't be a Slytherin House.  
> > Children who have already been indoctrinated with bigotry and the
> > worst values should be sorted with those who have the best 
> > values, not with more of the worst! At least then they'd have an
> > honest chance to experience a different way, and to absorb better
> > values. 
 
> Pippin:
> Except their parents wouldn't stand for it. The Slytherins are
> as proud of their House as the Gryffindors are of theirs. They'd
> leave Hogwarts and start their own school, and if you think
> Hogwarts would have been better off without them, consider
> that Sirius and Snape would have been sent to that other 
> school as well.
> 
> How are we going to stop children from believing in ideas
> we disagree with? Make them carve "I will not tell lies" into
> their hands?

Jen:  Or sent to Durmstrang I suppose.  One thing that happened 
during the course of the story is that we see pure-blood families 
dying off (Slytherin/Gaunts, Crouches, Crabbes? don't know) and 
changing in composition (Blacks, Potters, Weasleys).  The Black 
family tapestry would only reflect two direct heirs in the story: 
Scorpius and Teddy (who wouldn't be considered acceptable for 
inclusion).  No heirs from Sirius, Regulus, or Bella.  Meanwhile the 
Weasley children are marrying half-bloods and Muggleborns and half-
veelas and propagating at a good clip.  All that to say that the 
house affected the most by this change has to be Slytherin imo, since 
one critera is 'We'll teach just those whose ancestry is purest.' 
(OOTP)  Those children don't exist in the story except for Scorpius, 
as compared to Rose, Hugo, James, Lily, Albus, Teddy, and Victoire.  
I know technically there must be more pure-blood children out there 
<g>, but I'm talking about children who come from families we see in 
the story who are prejudiced about pure-blood. 

In the end, Voldemort's goal to prune the diseased family trees, 
to 'cut away the canker that infects us until only those of the true 
blood remain' (DH, chap 1) amounts to an almost farcical 
proposition.  In attempting to rid the WW of 'disease,' he actually 
caused the end of several pure-blood family lines by forcing those 
families into situations where they died in his service.