Re-reading COS : questions

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 94899

Del asked:
> 4. Salazar Slytherin, or rather his statue : it is described as 
> having an "ancient and monkey-like" face (p. 329). Unusual 
> description, which put in my mind the image of a goblin. Could there 
> be a connection between SS and the goblins ? Could SS be the 
> ultimate fraud, pretending to want to clean Hogwarts of all non-
> purebloods when he in fact was half-goblin ?
> 
>
Aesha responded:
Well, are non purebloods just those who are muggle born or the child
of a muggle and a witch/wizard? Perhaps someone who is a 'halfblood'
would still be considered pureblood if they're a magical creature. I
don't know about that, though. 
 
Carol:
I find Aesha's response interesting in light of JKR's revelation that
Remus Lupin is a half blood. Did JKR mean that Lupin is
a) a "half and half" like Seamus?
b) half pureblood, half Muggle-born like Harry?
or c) half witch/wizard, half werewolf like--well, like nobody else we
know in the WW.
But option C could account for his having a werewolflike last name,
and, as I postulated elsewhere in a post that no one responded to, it
could have been his father who bit him. (Reactions, anybody? Don't
bite me!)

Carol, who notes that Severus Snape also has the initials SS and
wonders if there's another way that we can refer to Salazar Slytherin
to avoid confusion