Riddle = Slytherin?

[kateydidnt2002]

No: HPFGUIDX 84538

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "eiffelangel" 
<eiffelangel at h...> wrote:
> All pertinent quotes relating to my analysis:
> 
> "Forinstance, Slytherin / Took only pure-blood wizards / Of great 
> cunning, just like him..." (OotP, pg. 205)
> 
> *~*~*
> 
> " 'You stand, Harry Potter, upon the remains of my late father,' 
he 
> hissed softly. 'A Muggle and a fool... very like your dear 
mother...' "
> (GoF, pg. 646)
> 
> *~*~*
> 
> " 'The heir alone would be able to unseal the Chamber of 
> Secrets'... 'But maybe you've got to be related to Slytherin [to 
open 
> it]...' " (CoS, pgs. 151-2)
> 
> *~*~*
> 
> If Slytherin took only pure-blooded wizards and Riddle was a 
> half-blood, then why would he have been in Slytherin? 

I would call the sorting-hat's words a generalization. I doubt that 
in the thousand or so years Hogwarts has been open that there has 
*never* been a half blood or muggle born in slytherin. In books one 
through four Slytherin is described as cunning, using any means to 
achieve their own ends and such. *That* is the main criteria for 
Slytherin house, and pureblood is a second consideration. It is my 
thought that Tom Riddle's slytherin characteristics outweighed the 
drawback of him being a halfblood.


Kateydidnt