Sorting Hat (and racism)

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No: HPFGUIDX 106831

Nora wrote: 
> Dear Carol, much of what you write is true, but you are still 
> expurgating the concept of Slytherin House by omitting the blood 
> factor--it seems that that really WAS the most important factor 
for 
> Sal, being as that-s what caused the final split in the long run.  
> It's canon that a buttload of Slytherins are DEs, which means they 
> believe in the ideals listed below...and when you group them all 
> together, with no outside amelioration, welll...
> 
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Sorry to jump in, and to only take on one part of this. 

We may know that a lot of DEs were Slytherins, but we don't know 
that a lot of Slytherins are DEs.  I'm not even sure we know a lot 
of the DEs were Slytherin.  It's just that we know some who 
were....as it happens all the ones we know about (except for one 
Gryffindor) were Slytherins. 

We know for example that Snape's old gang were in Slytherin, and 
that Malfoy was. I'm not so sure we know the others were.  Nott, 
Crabbe, Goyle all have sons in Slytherin, but we don't know that 
they were in that House.

I know, I know, it's reasonable to think that they must have been in 
Slytherin.  But, it would be guessing.  

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