[HPforGrownups] Of course Snape is a Slytherin, was: Re: Snape

[jazmyn]

No: HPFGUIDX 84575

nibleswik wrote:
>(SNIPPIES!)
> it sing, "For instance, Slytherin / Took only pure-blood wizards /
> Of great cunning, just like him" (OotP, p. 205)? Yes, it is the
> second. Slytherins are supposed to be cunning, ambitious purebloods.
> The three traits don't automatically spell out evilness.
> 
> Cheekyweebisom
> 
> 
Ton Riddle was Slytherin and not a pureblood.  Slytherin himself no 
longer does the picking himself and I don't think the sorting hat cares 
if the person is pureblood as long as they are ambitious and cunning.. 
In fact, it wanted to put Harry in Slythrin too and Harry is not a 
pureblood, since his mother was muggleborn.

Its a thought that the reason none of the Slytherin students came to 
Snape's rescue when James and Sirius tomented him is that, possibly, 
Snape is not a pureblood and the pureblood Slytherins snubbed him. 
Maybe he did really outstanding in his O.W.L.s after that point and the 
young DEs saw him as a tool/resource and decided to overlook his blood. 
  Volde not being a pureblood either might have been drawn to Snape's 
need for revenge and hooked him in.  Snape however, was too intelligent 
to not realize he was only being used and perhaps Dumbledore turned out 
to be the only REAL friend he could turn to.

Jazmyn