The Founders and the Hat RE: [the_old_crowd] Re: Prophecy Pub/Less Than The Meanest Ghost/Black Family Tree

[Eileen Rebstock]

Acck. Proof #90890808 of my poor reading comprehension. I thought Pippin
was proposing two different Slytherins. Slytherin the Elder and
Slytherin the Younger. Which I must admit is an amusing proposition. 

But rereading, yes, the Hat was created when Slytherin was younger, I
think. 

> Since the Hat is sincere, we can't posit eeevil Slytherin who was
> always planning to betray his pal Godric.

You mean because Slytherin's brains were in the Hat, and so the Hat
knows what he thought at the time of making? 

> Slytherin  was tolerant enough to be satisfied with the House system
> and his friends' selections: "Thus the Houses and their founders/
> Retained friendships firm and true." --Hat Song, OOP

Well, did the other Founders take Muggleborns at first? Or was that a
later innovation? I can't really recall if canon says. 

Eileen