Why sort half-blood Riddle into Slytherin?

[Liz]

No: HPFGUIDX 108612


> kmc (snip) > 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? (end snip)

Liz now:

If the Sorting Hat put Riddle into Slytherin House, regardless of 
his blood line, then it must be Salazar's will for him to be there, 
because isn't the Hat a representation or memory of sorts of all the 
original house leaders? So, if the Hat put Riddle there, the Hat 
being Salazar incarnate, then Salazar "allowed" it, which would mean 
something altogether new and interesting about what Salazar truly 
believed (even if he didn't realize this himself) or, maybe that he 
makes as many mistakes as Riddle/Voldemort and therefore is not 
nearly as shrewd as he fancied himself.