Slytherin-Ever So Evil after all?

[D.G.]

No: HPFGUIDX 69280

Am I wrong, or is being a Pureblood considered a prerequisite for 
being in Slytherin?  I know the Sorting Hat was tempted to put Harry 
there, but I'm talking more about the actual "party line," so to 
speak, of the students who live there (and, possibly, Snape himself?  
He certainly must have believed it at one time at least, to have been 
a Death Eater.)

If that's the case, then I think the Slytherins are going to have to 
do some long, hard re-evaluation of their own thinking on this 
particular issue (whether or not they avoid the temptation to get 
involved in the Dark Arts), if they hope to be redeemed.

D.G. ("JazzmanChgo")

p.s.  Does anyone else find it significant that one of those annoying 
ads that appear regularly on these pages [as a barrier to be cleared 
before one can click onto a message] is an ad for --ahem!-- Phoenix 
University!?!?!?