[HPforGrownups] Lucius Malfoy and LV

[T.M. Sommers]

No: HPFGUIDX 77140

S Handel wrote:
> Ok, first, How did LV get into Slytherine?  I thought you had to be a 
> pure blood to get into that house.  Only one of LV's parents was 
> magical.  

According to the Sorting Hat's songs in the previous books, it puts 
people in Slytherin not based on genetics but on cunning and ambition.

Even if genetics were the criterion, I'm sure that any descendant of 
Slytherin would qualify, even if of 'impure' blood somewhere along the 
line.