Is Snape a pureblood?, was: Of course Snape is a Slytherin, was: Re: Snape

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No: HPFGUIDX 85678

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "nibleswik" <nibleswik at y...> 
wrote:
> Cheekyweebisom:
> <snip> Slytherins are supposed to be cunning, ambitious purebloods.
> > > The three traits don't automatically spell out evilness.
> 
> Jazmyn:
> > Ton Riddle was Slytherin and not a pureblood. <snip> I don't 
think 
> the sorting hat cares 
> > if the person is pureblood as long as they are ambitious and 
> cunning.. <snip>
> 
> Me (Cheekyweebisom):
> I got the impression that there were occasional halfbloods in 
> Slytherin. I definitely don't see it as, "Ambitious and cunning? 
> Step right up! We don't care about heritage anymore!" 
<snip>
> 
> Cheekyweebisom

Tom Riddle was also a decendant of Salazar Slytherin.  I suspect that 
alone would have got him landed in Slytherin, unless he pulled an HP 
and asked to be placed in another house.  All I remember of canon, 
none of the books said all Slytherins were evil.  Ron said there 
wasn't a witch or wizard who went bad that wasn't in Slytherin.    
So, does that mean Peter Pettigrew was a Slytherin?  Since DD said he 
made Remus prefect to help reign in Black and Potter, I assumed all 4 
were Gryffindors.  Peter the rat too, since I also assumed if he had 
been a Slytherin, he would have sucked up to a Slytherin, not a 
Gryffindor...