[HPforGrownupscharacter list symbols

[Polgara TheSorcess]

No: HPFGUIDX 36381

> >>Interestingly, whichever symbol means half-blood, there's
>half-bloods in Slytherin (look at Bulstrode and Goyle -
>different symbols). I've always wondered whether or not
>muggle-borns get sorted into Slyth >>
>
>True, but canon says specifically that Slytherin hated
>muggle-borns (that's why he left Hogwarts). I suspect
>that the Sorting Hat knows this and keeps anyone with
>less than a "proper" amount of wizard blood out of
>Slytherin.
>
>--Anna

That sounds like a good speculation to me. After all, we know for sure that 
Tom Riddle was in Slytherin and he was a half-blood. His parentage would 
have been obvious to his contempoaries too considering his father was Muggle 
and thus he doesn't have the name of a long standing wizard family. We also 
know that he grew up in a Muggle orphange, meaning he probably didn't know 
anything about magic until Hogwarts. What I would really like to know, 
however, is whether or not the Slytherins tormented Riddle about it. Get 
teased for being a half-blood => kill all Muggles, sounds like Voldemort 
logic to me =P

Polgara

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