[HPforGrownups] Re: Riddle = Slytherin?

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In a message dated 11/10/2003 5:09:24 PM Eastern Standard Time, "kateydidnt2002" <kateydidnt2002 at yahoo.com> writes:


>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.
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>Kateydidnt
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I had a thought that perhaps the definition of "pureblood" has changed over the ages.  Words do that, you know.

Like in Salazars time it could have been unilinial.  One wizard parent means your pure blood.  Which would explain Tom's Sorting and Harry's Almost Sorting.

Also, who knows how many generations it has to be, I remember in Book2 there was a mention of nine generations of "Witches and Warlocks"


Nemi