[HPforGrownups] Re: Voldemort - descendent or ancestor

[Sunnylove0 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 46882

In a message dated 11/20/2002 3:38:20 PM Mountain Standard Time, 
pipdowns at etchells0.demon.co.uk writes:


> 
> So Voldemort *is* Slytherin's last remaining descendant. This gives 
> rise to speculation that the Slytherin descendants have invariably 
> been so impossible to get along with that they have been slaughtered 
> at a truly incredible rate. Either that, or they had such appalling 
> interpersonal skills that they only ever managed to produce one 
> surviving child per generation before their wife/husband 
> decided 'enough of this, I'm taking a lover'. ;-)
> 
> Otherwise, by now, the entire British Isles, most of the Caribbean, 
> a good part of the Americas, the majority of Australia and New 
> Zealand, 10 percent of the Indian subcontinent,and a sprinkling of 
> other nationalities should also be descendants of Slytherin.
> 
> Of course, the fact that Dumbledore thinks Tom Riddle was 
> Slytherin's last and only remaining descendant does not necessarily 
> mean that this is *in fact* the case. [grin]
> 
> Pip!Squeak
> 
> 

Well, also remember somewhere in the books Ron pops up with "Most of us are 
half-Muggle anyway, if we hadn't married Muggles we'd have died out."

Maybe the Slytherin family's prejudices against Muggles combined with 
unpopularity in the wizarding world (there is evidence that old Salazar was 
not exactly Rainbow Brite i.e. parseltongue, pureblood prejudices, general 
bad attitude) is working against them in the reproduction arena.  

The Queen of Serpents

(Slytherin into a new list! Hello everyone!)


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