About Slytherin House

[lucky_kari]

No: HPFGUIDX 33437

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "david_p2002ca" <david_p at i...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at y..., Alexander <lav at t...> wrote:
> >   Ah, and a question springs up to my mind. What if we have
> > a magic-wielding, ambitious, treachery, evil-inspired,
> > cowardly, etc etc, *muggle-born*? Would he be sorted into
> > Slytherin despite Salazar's ideas? And if not, what house
> > would he hit then?
> 
> Well, He Who Must Not Be Named was a halfbreed Slytherin, so I guess 
> Salazar was nothing if not flexible...
>

BTW, how do we know if the current prejudice against mudbloods is all 
the way back or recent, or has occured in spurts. At one end, we have 
Salazar Slytherin who reportedly objected against Hogwarts taking 
students from non-magical backgrounds (is there anything in the text 
to show whether his objections were based on any theory of blood, or 
were they more security-like? i.e. They stick to their world. We stick 
to ours, and the world goes a whole lot better, Godric.) On the other 
end, we have a bunch of Slytherins who insult others for not being 
pure-blood. Nearer to the latter than the former we have Tom Riddle, 
who was definitely "mudblood", and was a great success in Slytherin.

If Slytherin has become more defiantly "pure blood" the last little 
while, they've also become a whole lot less attractive. "You Know Who" 
must have made Slytherin look good, for instance. Draco doesn't even 
try. In fact, the whole current Slytherin lot are almost completely 
detestable, while the rationale behind the house, and what we know of 
its history, should actually make it glamorous and attractive. Perhaps 
this is one of the reasons why people long for some development with 
Draco - SHIP or otherwise. 

Eileen, who although she likes to tell herself she's a Gryffindor 
during the daytime, dreams about being a Slytherin at night, which is 
frankly nightmarish.