[HPforGrownups] Who sets the password?

[Iggy McSnurd]

No: HPFGUIDX 81537

>From: "Aesha Malikah Takreem Williams
>     Liz (jade_sirocco) mentioned that in 2nd year, the Slytherin password
was "pureblood". I wonder if this is an indication
>that the prefects set the password, because it seems like it would be
improper for the word "pureblood" to be the
>password... and I highly doubt Dumbledore would choose it, and I think
Snape might not, either (since he's not working for
>the Dark Lord anymore, does he harbor the same racist tendencies? Or did he
just decide world domination, mass murder
>and torture weren't the ways to go about getting rid of "their kind"?) I
mean, it seems to me that pureblood has at the very
>least a bad connotation... it seems to be the opposite of the word
"mudblood", which we all know is a horrible thing to call
>someone. Then again, perhaps pureblood isn't used the same way that
mudblood is.

Well, we have seen indications that the passwords can, and do, change
regularly.  It could be that, after the first message on the wall in CoS, it
was changed to "PureBlood."  It seems to me something the Slytherins would
do, both to constantly remind themselves that they are safe from the Heir's
wrath, and to bolster their own egos.

As for who specifically sets the password... I would think it would be the
head of each house, since they can tailor it to the goals, attitudes, or
plain mood of that house at that time.


Iggy McSnurd,
the Prankster


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