Realistic Resolutions - WAS: Slytherins come back

[a_svirn]

No: HPFGUIDX 180725

> Magpie:
> In the end the founder's story was repeated--Slytherin was always a 
> champion of Pureblood supremacy and bloodlines, even if he was 
> always also about ambition and cunning (so he's a racist with a 
> desire to promote his chosen group even in underhanded ways). He 
was 
> a founder--we don't know why. Perhaps Gryffindor, too, was 
temporary 
> blinded by his gift for magic. Then he left, and that brought about 
> peace. That seemed to be just the way JKR wanted it and still does. 
> Slytherin still brings the other 3 houses together, it's still the 
> half-house, the one that is part of the school but not part of the 
> school. There's actually no call on Slytherin whatsoever to change--
> they are what they are. So we're left with the question asked here: 
> why are they suffered to remain? To me it seems like the answer to 
> that question is found in the psychology of the WW and the author. 
> It's comforting to somebody to have this house in the form that it 
> exists, periodically gaining power and then symbolically brought 
low-
> -but never healed or destroyed. 
> 
> Remember, the question of "why is there a Slytherin?" is only one 
> outside the books. It's one JKR gets asked in interviews and she's 
> yet to really have an answer for it at all. The WW doesn't seem to 
> question it's existance at all and enjoy having it just the way it 
> is. 
> 

a_svirn:
I suppose. Only that's ... more than a little unwise of them, is it? 
Why would they find recreating the Original Rift over and over again 
comforting? By maintaining the house of the power-hungry pure-blood 
supremacists they ensure transmitting their ideology through 
generations, they help to preserve and develop their social networks. 
In short, they create all the conditions needed for another Dark Lord 
to emerge. What's so comforting in knowing that "all is well" means 
in actual fact "all is well so far"?