Why sort half-blood Riddle into Slytherin?

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No: HPFGUIDX 108637

> kmc asked:
> I want to know how Tom Riddle with his half-blood
> heritage got sorted into Slytherin?
>  
> Could there be other "half-bloods" in Slytherin?
 
~Yb <hubbarrk at rose-hulman.edu> wrote:
> Well, who would be more deserving of a place in
> Slytherin than Slytherin's heir himself? Not to 
> mention, he had the personality qualities that 
> befit a Slytherin. <snip>
> 
> And regarding other "half-bloods?" I doubt it. 
> There would have to be a really good reason, like
> when the Hat said Harry would do well in Slytherin, 
> it was because even though his mother was a muggle-
> born, so he wasn't pure-blood, he had so many 
> qualities like TR did <snip>.

 
Hi every one,
  It's been nice to read all of your messages!

I just wanted to point something out, it's interesting
that the wizarding world puts so much attention on the
purity of ancestry, but their children are educated
and sorted (more specificly, the distinguished school
of Hogwarts) by a very different principle (all
though, not always apperent), which is talent.

This e-mail just made me rememer its importance.
Thanks Yb,

raquel