Of course Snape is a Slytherin

[yolandacarroll]

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Carol said:
> I don't think we have any
> indication that Snape is not a "pure blood." He wouldn't have called
> Lily a "mud blood" if his own heritage were questionable. 

And Thren says:
> <snip> One could make a case for 
> him using the term in a 'I might be low on the food chain, but still 
> higher than you' kind of way. It would show any Slytherins (or anyone, 
> really) that he had distanced himself from the more undesirable bits of 
> his parentage <snip>

I agree with Carol. The last thing he would want is for Lily or 
someone else for that matter (James, Sirius) to whip around and 
say "That's rich coming from you, half-blood".
Snape wouldn't use an insult that brings attention to his own half-
blood status.

Yolanda