The sorting hat seems to think Harry is a pure-blooded wizard.

[Jenni A.M. Merrifield]

No: HPFGUIDX 105728

> Becki's says;
> 
> I am watching the movie too, I just love the extra scenes.

  Yeah, me too - I'd seen them before, from the DVD set, but it was 
really nice to see them all "in situ". :-)

[snip]

> Another point to your other point of the poem is that Tom Riddle
> was most deffinatly a half-blood and not only was he in Slytherin, 
> he was the heir...

  Yeah, I saw another thread where someone was pointing out how 
difficult school would have been for Tom Riddle at first, being in 
Slytherin as a poor, half-blood when the *majority* were wealthy 
pure-bloods and I immediately went "D'oh! I forgot about that!"

  [OT: Gadfly!  It is hard to catch up after missing a couple of 
days.  Each time I've get a chance to sit down and play "catch up" 
another 1000 or so messages have come in... I'm getting much more 
picky about which subject lines I'll look into...]

> Possibly Slytherin had no choice if he was the only one left?  
> Haven't figured that one out yet, quite a bit of contradictions 
> going around on that one.

  That is certainly a possibility, but, in retrospect, I think that 
the sorting hat will willingly put anyone with at least some 
Wizarding blood and appropriate traits into Slytherin, but would 
probably never put someone with NO Wizarding blood (that is, a 
muggle-born like Hermione) in Slytherin no matter how much of the 
typical slytherin traits he or she might have.

Jenni
(Who totally enjoyed watching the extended version of HP:SS twice in 
a row)