[HPforGrownups] Re: religion in Hong Kong and Evil Hufflepuffs/Good Slytherins)

[Alexandra Y. Kwan]

No: HPFGUIDX 17807

Hello,

> Erm, well for one thing I'm not Christian (though brought up that
> way).  Secondly, I'm English, and had a boyfriend from HK when I was

First, I apologize for my attitude earlier.  It was rather late at night and
tiredness makes me cranky.

> was the one who told me that the majority of people in Hong Kong were
> Christian.  This made sense to me, considering the effect of British

A large number of middle class people are Christian, true.  Quite a large
number of my classmates here are Christian, too.  Your boyfriend is
definitely laboring under a false impression, however.

> I think that Voldemort readily admits that his ancestry is half
> Muggle.  (Although I don't know what he would have done at school).
> So I can't see him making up stories about his background.   I was

Oh, I don't know.  Wasn't Hitler rumored to have a Jewish grandparent? (Is
it true?)  And I agree that he won't be making up stories.  I can, however,
see him omitting information to his students, though.  I mean, he seem to
hate his dad so much that he probably won't mention him anyway.

> trying to get across the point that perhaps he was an exception, and
> what was the likelihood of other muggleborn children being sorted
> into Slytherin.  The decision is made by the sorting hat, afterall,
> and therefore this kind of information would be taken into account.

Hmm.  There don't seem to be Muggle-born children in the Slytherin house
currently.  And V's not completely Muggle-born.  I really do wonder.

little Alex