Slytherin composition (was Re: Draco is Evil)

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--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Alexandra Y. Kwan" <litalex at y...> wrote:
> Talking about that, are there no Muggle-born or
> 'half-blood' currently in Slytherin?  I assume they'd
> take offense to Draco continually mouthing them off if
> there are, but the Slytherin table always seems
> so...filled with commaradie.

  I'm sure that somewhere in Slytherin, in Harry's year or not, there 
must be a Muggle-born or half-blood student since the Sorting Hat 
probably wouldn't care whether the student was pure-blood or not and 
there must be some Muggle-borns who are clever and have ambition. And 
I'm sure they're annoyed with Draco's comments but I guess they 
tolerate him due to the fact that he's a housemate. Maybe they even 
know his redeeming qualities.
 
  As for the password, remember that that was in their second year 
and there was a monster crawling around attacking Muggle-borns. 
Maybe "pureblood" was picked to show the Heir of Slytherin that 
Slytherin still holds high stakes in the purity of blood. And I doubt 
that Prof. Snape picked the password; it would be a bad sign if a 
former Death Eater started discriminating against Muggle-born 
students and I'm sure Snape wouldn't want to be suspected of 
rejoining the DEs. But a prefect with a simalar backround as Draco 
might have. And the doors and aspects of the building at Hogwarts 
have been known to not allow certain people in or move around or 
things like that so perhaps the wall itself choose the password. It 
is Hogwarts; you never really know.

By the way, if you're looking for some pro-Slytherin fanfiction (it's 
not as terrible as it sounds) in which Muggle-borns are in the house, 
than I highly recommend J. L. Matthews' wonderful Slytherin Rising 
series. It's on Fanfiction.net and Schnoogle.com if you're interested.

Retreating back into lurkdom,
Procyon White