Why sort half-blood Riddle into Slytherin?

[Cathy Drolet]

No: HPFGUIDX 108555

kmc

"Hi all,
This question may have been answered but with the sorting hat's song in
OOP I want to know how Tom Riddle with his half-blood hertitage got sorted
into Slytherin?

Could there be other "half-bloods" in Slytherin?

Thanks for the chance to ask this question,"



DuffyPoo:

Hello to you too!  My first answer would be that regardless of purity of blood, Tom Riddle was a direct descendent of Salazar Slytherin through his mother.  My second answer is, I don't have any proof that only pure-bloods now reside in Slytherin House.  If you believe the sorting hat does the actual sorting, and not the kids' preferences, (that is what I believe), then the sorting hat at least considered Harry for Slytherin.  He is half-blood as well.  If Tom Riddle was a Slytherin and HP could have been, what's to say there are not others?  We just haven't met them yet, or at least don't know their blood-status yet..  

Also, if you check on JKR's site, there is a story about Mafalda, a Weasley cousin who didn't make it into GoF.  She was to be the daughter of "I think Mum's got a second cousin who's an accountant, but we never talk about him" and his Muggle wife.  She was going to end up in Slytherin.  Unfortunately, she got written out of the book.  Does that count as proof that there are half-bloods in Slytherin? ;-)



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