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

[EnsTren at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 69487

In a message dated 7/11/2003 1:11:48 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
bard7696 at aol.com writes:


> Jasmyn: 
> 
> > 
> > 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. 
> 
> 1) We aren't 100.00 percent sure V-Mort was a Slyth.
> 
> 2) Even if he was, we're talking about a kid directly descended from 
> Salazar AND who had rejected all things Muggle. Sounds close enough 
> to pureblood for government work.
> 

1)  Didn't we go over this already?  It was in the book.

2) No.  We're talking about Salazar's definitions as implimented into the hat 
versus what the current political and popular definitions are.  It's been a 
thousand years, something must have changed.


Nemi
       --Black Dragon
       --Slasher and Yaoist
       --Utterly Psycotic


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