Of Hxs and parasites

[pippin_999]

Kneasy:
> 
> But horseboxes -  they're in the list of possible plot patches that I
> mentioned previously. Doesn't seem to have been thought through, unlike
> most of the other plot devices. All sorts of questions arise - how many 
> pieces can it be divided into; are they all the same size; if so, how, when the 
> splitting is performed piecemeal at ad hoc intervals; is a fraction is equal to
> the whole; aren't souls supposed to be the one indestructible personal part?
> - and so on. I get the impression that someone has painted themselves
> into a corner and hxs are the only way to extricate themselves from a
> sticky situation, plotwise.
> Could be wrong, but there again....
> 

Pippin:
Nope, I think they've been there all along, or at any rate since Book Two,
when we learned that Sally left. The school survived when it should
have died, but  in a weakened, fragmented state, unable to heal itself. 

Sound familiar? 

And we don't know *why* Sally up and quit the place, do we. 
I'd  bet there's a death at the heart of it all, a death for which
Sally alone was blamed, when in truth none were innocent and all were 
responsible.

We all know Salazar left something of himself behind.
The question we should be asking, IMO, is, What did he take with him?

Return that to the school and the Houses can exist in harmony once more.

Pippin