Rowling's Roster System (Was: Re: "Good Slyth" (was: stereotypes)

[darrin_burnett]

No: HPFGUIDX 57661

Jo wrote:

> 
> Well, I wouldn't rule it out at all.  I can't believe that *all* the 
> Slytherns and *all* DEs are pure-bloods.  There simply aren't enough 
> pure-bloods to go around.  Ron points out in CoS, "most wizards 
> these days are half-blood anyway. If we hadn't married Muggles 
> we'd've died out."  CoS, Chapter 7
> Tom Riddle/Voldy himself is half-blood, after all.  I've been 
> suspicious of Seamus ever since PS/SS when the hat took nearly a 
> whole minute before putting him in Gryffindor.  If there's going to 
> be a *bad* Gryffindor (which I think is very likely), he's my 
> candidate at this point.
> 
>

Answering the second point first, I think we've had a bad Gryffindor (not 
saying we can't have others, though) in Peter Pettigrew. 

Yes, we don't know for sure he was a Gryff, but I think the evidence points in 
that direction. Foremost, three people learning Animagic and four people 
sneaking around together almost have to be in the same house.

Please understand, I've never tried to make the converse argument to my "So 
Far, All Slyths Bad" routine, which is "So Far, All Gryffs Good." I don't believe 
that to be the case.

Riddle is half-blood, but he's also a direct descendant of old Sal Slyth himself, 
and he renounced, violently, everything Muggle. 

I believe all the DEs -- there are only 30 of them after all -- to be pureblood. I 
just can't see V-Mort trusting such a job to those that's aren't pureblood.

While I understand that it would be tough to exclusively choose pureblood for 
Slyth -- and considering that Ron the Gryff and Ernie the Huffle are 
purebloods, other houses are competing for them as well --  I would think the 
sorting hat tries its darnedest.

Again, the password is pureblood and Draco and his boys openly talk about 
exterminating mudbloods. Seems awfully hard to be a Slyth in that 
environment.

But if one is, maybe that'll be my good Slyth, someone who just gets tired of 
hearing that racist filth.

Darrin