Muggle-born - Evil Hufflepuffs/Good Slytherins

[catherine at cator-manor.demon.co.uk]

No: HPFGUIDX 17765

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Catlady <catlady at w...> wrote:
By the way, does anyone know what religions are common among
> people from Hong Kong? For some reason, all the people from Hong 
Kong
> whom I know are Christians..

I know quite a few people from Hong Kong, and as you say, most are 
Christians - Roman Catholics, to be precise.  In fact, many wealthy 
families send their children over here to be educated in 
English/roman Catholic private schools.

> Vlatka wrote:
> > However, all this does not mean that  Hufflepuffs cannot
> > have evil potential.  Just like I do not think that all Slytherins
> > are bad  ;-)
> 
> I had a new (to me) thought today! Despite the Sorting Hat's songs
> saying that Hufflepuffs have loyalty and hard work, Ravenclaws are
> studious, Slytherins are ambitious, Gryffindors are brave, 
whatever, we
> were ALSO told that the Hat's purpose is to pick the students for 
each
> House whom the Founder of that House would have picked if heesh was
> still around. I suspect that the Founders were influenced by many
> characteristics of the students when deciding which students to 
accept
> into their own teaching. 

I was wondering recently how muggle-born children who were sorted 
into Slytherin would be treated by their peers.  I came to the 
conclusion that as Slytherin valued pure bloods, that it was unlikely 
that there would be any muggle borns in his house.  On the other 
hand, Voldemort himself was sorted into Slytherin, and he isn't 
pureblood, so this doesn't really follow, unless his ancestry 
overcame muggle blood.  So, does Slytherin value other things 
(cunning, ambition, pure evil) above blood?

Catherine