Slytherins are bad (was:Re: Severus as friend)

[Zara]

No: HPFGUIDX 183385

> Betsy Hp:
> I wasn't really thinking of "wild-eyed reformers."  I was thinking of 
> the Founders deciding, after Salazer did his, "screw you guys, I'm 
> going home," exit, to close down his House (who'd argue that they 
> didn't have valid call to?  they were the *Founders* for goodness 
> sake!) especially as it espoused values they weren't that thrilled 
> with.  (Or so they *claimed*... ::wink, wink, nudge, nudge::)

Zara:
When did the Founders claim not to be thrilled with the values Salazar 
Slytherin espoused at the time they all founded the school together? On 
the contrary, the fact that they did found a school together, suggests 
to me that they all considered the others' values to be within 
acceptable bounds. My conclusion is racism concerned them far less than 
it does you. Which makes lots of sense to me, it would be a rather 
exotic concern for 10th cetury Britain.

It is also my opinion, that the wizard in the alley in late twentieth 
century Britain is a lot less concerned about racism than you are, 
which is why the idea of closing Slytherin House would still have been 
a wild-eyed one.