Of course Snape is a Slytherin

[yolandacarroll]

No: HPFGUIDX 85065

Jazmyn wrote:
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Unless you are telling me that EVERY Slytherin 
> child is a walking genealogy database and knows every single family 
down 
> to the poorest hedgewitch in the outskirts of Scotland?  
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Actually, EVERY Slytherin child wouldn't have to be a database just 
some of them.  For the record, the ones that care about such things 
would know the names of all the old wizarding families.  There may 
not be that many names to memorize, in OOP, didn't Sirius say "there 
are hardly any of us left".

By the way, Sirius appeared to be pretty well versed in wizard 
genealogy.  Of course, he had a tapestry right in front of him with 
plenty of pureblood families listed.  Remember, these people pride 
themselves on their ancestry.  All purebloods may not have family 
trees nicely recorded on tapestries, but it's definately in a book 
somewhere.  A book that their kids will have seen and maybe even 
studied.

In OOP, Sirius did say that all purebloods were related.  If all 
purebloods are related, then your family's name should be listed on 
the family tree of at least some of your classmates.  If you're a 
pureblood, then at least some of the other purebloods should be your 
cousins.

If none of the kids from old wizarding families have heard of your 
family, chances are you're not one of them.  

> If Snape told people he was pureblooded, 
> even if he wasn't, would a bunch of school age kids 
> bother to check?
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They wouldn't have to check.  They would already know.

Even if the kids didn't know their parents would.  I strongly believe 
that *some* purebloods are so fanatical (think Mrs. Black's 
screeching portrait) that they would not want their kids hanging out 
with anyone who wasn't pure.  These kids would also get asked who 
their friends are.  

The kids may not know who's pure, but their parents definately would 
and would tell their children exactly how pure their classmates are 
or aren't.

Yolanda