[HPforGrownups] Re: Not Slytherin, not Slytherin

[jazmyn]

No: HPFGUIDX 51320



Dicentra wrote:
 
>We don't know for sure that the bigotry is confined to House
>Slytherin, nor do we know for sure that all Slytherins are bigots.
>They are most certainly all pure-blood, but so are the Weasleys, and
>they aren't bigots. Again, we don't know how bad all Slytherins are.
>Snape, the head of House Slytherin, is nasty but is turning out to
>be a rather moral person. And we have the example of Gryffindor (we
>think) Peter Pettigrew, who is single-handedly responsible both for
>the murder of Harry's parents and for Voldemort's return (heh, pun
>intended).
> 

There is no canon to support the idea that all Slytherins are purebreds.
Tom Riddle was not a pureblood and the sorting hat wanted to put Harry
in Slytherin and he is not pureblood either.  We don't even know is
Snape is pureblood. Might explain his leaving the death-eaters if in
fact he is not pureblood and he lost any family members over it. Would
explain his bitterness if that was the case.

I would think there are a higher percentage of purebloods in that house,
maybe.  Trouble is, all the ones we see are the ones who hang out with
Malfoy, so we simply don't see the Slytherins that are not part of his
'gang'...

Jazmyn