[HPforGrownups] Slytherin composition

[Kelly Hurt]

No: HPFGUIDX 25249

Little Alex asked

>>>Talking about that, are there no
>>>Muggle-born or 'half-blood'
>>>currently in Slytherin?
>

To which I answered

>>With a password like 'pureblood', I
>>doubt it seriously.

And she responded

>I thought the passwords were set by
>the portraits themselves?

The entrance to the Slytherin common room is through a wall, thus Snape
or the Prefects would have to set the passwords.

>Also, *why* isn't there any
>Muggle-borns and/or 'halfbloods'
>currently in Slytherin?

The Sorting Hat didn't put any there?;-)

>Tom Riddle was in Slytherin, wasn't
>he?

Yes he was.  I think his ambition and all-consuming hatred of Muggles
made his lineage irrelevant to the Sorting Hat.

Kelly the Yarn Junkie

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