iRe: [HPforGrownups] Slytherin halfbloods? WAS Re: OOTP: Still Catching Up..

[Kelly Grosskreutz]

No: HPFGUIDX 68422


> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Jason" <batheloth at y...> wrote:
>
> > But the Sorting Hat's song in OOP mentions that Slytherin only
> > took "pure-blood" wizards.  Harry's mother was a mudblood, which
> > would seem to make him ineligible for Slytherin house.  Maybe this
> > rule can be broken under special circumstances, but it seems odd
> that
> > the Sorting Hat would try to put Harry in Slytherin house first.
>
> I keep wondering about Tom Riddle, myself. How did the rest of
> slytherin house react to a halfblood boy in their midst? And from
> that, I wonder- are there ever muggleborn children sorted into that
> house? Are halfblood children given a harder time there? I just keep
> thinking what kids like Draco might do to such people- and
> shuddering.
>
> Nmissi at insightbb.com

I just recalled something today that directly relates to this.  Marcus Flint
is a Slytherin.  He is always described as looking as though he is part
troll.  If he is part troll, then that would indicate to me he is not a
pureblood.  And yet he made it into Slytherin.  Granted, his attitude and
actions fit right in with what we've seen out of the other Slytherins, but
he still might not be fully human.  I realize that canon never came right
out and said he was part troll, but the thought has been raised, and so I
bring it up here.  This would fit in with the Hat being willing to take
Riddle and Harry even though they are not purebloods.

Kelly Grosskreutz
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