[HPforGrownups] Re: Slytherin-Ever So Evil after all?

[jazmyn]

No: HPFGUIDX 69417


D.G. wrote:
> 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.
> 

Tom 'Lord V' Riddle was not a pureblood and was in Slytherin.  I think 
the hat doesn't care if you are pureblood, but is looking for other 
'Slytherin qualities'.  It may be that the 'good Slytherins' that people 
know must exist are in fact the ones who are not purebloods and are not 
part of Malfoy's circle. They might be just trying to stay out of his 
way and not stick their necks out.  Slythrins are able to be brave, but 
not foolishly so.  They don't have to 'prove it' by putting themselves 
in danger for no reason.

Jazmyn