But the Prophet also made much of the fact that, of the four Founders of Hogwarts, only Slytherin had a living Lord Head of House, and it was unthinkable that Potter would declare a Hogwarts-Founder House to be extinct. After all, the Lord Head of a Hogwarts-Founder House could dismiss the Hogwarts Board of Governors and could make decisions in the Board’s place. What kind of fool was Potter, the Prophet asked, that he was given power to rule (even if his ruled domain was only Hogwarts), then threw this power away?