[HPforGrownups] Re: Chapter Discussion: Goblet of Fire Ch. 4: Back to the Burrow

[Eric Oppen]

No: HPFGUIDX 191470

Quoting Shelley Gardner <k12listmomma at comcast.net>:


> I guess for me the House system is like Alma Matters- I'm currently in
> Utah, and the local BYU versus UofU is a pretty hot loyalty issue. In
> other areas it might be hot between two other colleges. You are supposed
> to show loyalty to the school you went to. I just laugh; I'm a Utah
> transplant and came from Penn State, so I think both of them are nuts,
> but especially during football season every year we get asked to pick a
> side. Only for the kids of Hogwarts, they got asked, almost TOLD by the
> hat, which side they were on, and they get stuck there for the rest of
> their lives. No wonder why some kids were fearful of the hat and where
> it would place them.

At the Battle of Hogwarts, a lot of the Slytherins were in a dreadful  
position: What to do if your parents are with the DEs but your own  
sympathies are with the DA?  Shoot at your family or your friends?   
Getting them the hell out of there strikes me as a real good idea; you  
wouldn't have to worry about treachery (on either side) and  
afterwards, they could plead innocence.

And I've read a good few fics where one of the Weasleys was put into  
Slytherin, and in most cases, it produced a family crisis.  Being in a  
House that most of your family grew up seriously not liking could be  
very bad for a kid's relationship with his or her family.

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