Sorting Muggle-borns ( was: The Basilisk)

[Melody]

No: HPFGUIDX 46881

bugaloo37 wrote:
> 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.


Bugaloo37, I like you idea.  For some reason, I see the founders like
lawyers trying to pick a jury.  Some are certain strike off's while
others are maybe's depending on whether the other houses want them.

And in that view, Slytherin would definitely cut the idea of a muggle
born first.  It was an issue he was so passionate about that he left
the school all together, so I think he would deem it priority #1.

I don't think the sorting hat would sing about that either, since it
is rather, I guess I'll say...embarrassing part of the school's
history.  You don't air your dirty laundry the first day new neighbors
move in next door.  The hat wants to encourage new Slytherins and not
build prejudices from the start.  Kind of like McGonagall telling the
first years, "each house has its own noble history and each has
produced outstanding witches and wizards." (PS/SS Ch7)

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Say wrote:
>Voldemort was a mudblood, too - his father was a muggle. If he got
>into Slytherin, it makes sense that other muggle-born pupils could,
>as well.

Actually you have the definition of "mudblood" too encompassing.

Let me quote (my favorite thing to do lately):
CoS Ch7
"Mudblood's a really foul name for someone who is Muggle-born -- you
know, non-magical parents."

Note the pleural parents.  Also, no one in the books who has half and
half parents are ever called mudblood.


Melody