Riddle = Slytherin?

[nkittyhawk97]

No: HPFGUIDX 84558

> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "eiffelangel" 
> <eiffelangel at h...> wrote:

> > 
> > If Slytherin took only pure-blooded wizards and Riddle was a 
> > half-blood, then why would he have been in Slytherin? 
> 
I always thought that the thing about "only taking purebloods" was 
only expressing the ignorance and thought-to-be superiority towards 
muggleborns. Even if his father was a muggle, his mother was still a 
direct descendant of Salazar himself.
Please, people, remember that Harry would have been placed in 
Slytherin if he hadn't chosen not to, *despite* the fact that his 
mother was a muggleborn. 
Had he kept his mouth shut while being sorted, he would have anded 
up in Slytherin, thus disproving the assumption that only purebloods 
can be in Slytherin.
If Tom Riddle's qualities that were given to Harry would have swayed 
the Sorting Hat to put Harry, the son of a Gryffindor, into 
Slytherin, then of course Riddle was in Slytherin.
If he wasn't, how would that have affected the Hat so strongly 
towards Harry?