The Basilisk *Does* Target Its Victims (IMO)

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No: HPFGUIDX 46872

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., jodel at a... wrote:
><snip> 
> In any case there has been a deal of speculation on just what house 
the Muggle-born Myrtle was sorted into. And quite a few of these 
debates have concluded that she may very well have been in Slytherin. 
It stands to reason that there must be any number of Muggle-borns 
whose overriding character trait is a hunger for power. 
<snip>

IMO, there is no way that muggle-born Myrtle was in Slytherin.  Given 
what we know concerning Salazar Slytherin's opinions in regards 
to "mudbloods", why would the Sorting Hat place a muggle-born in 
Slytherin?  My theory concerning the Sorting Hat is that it contains 
the likes/dislikes of all four founders and makes its decisions based 
on what each founder considered "admirable traits"  Slytherin most 
certainly would not have considered a muggle-born "worthy" -
regardless of what other traits they may have had- such as a hunger 
for power. Obviously, we can summize that the other three founders 
were not interested or concerned with "wizard purity" since we know 
for certain that Gryffindor, Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff -all contain 
muggle-borns.  

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