The Founders Four was Re: PRINCE, BLOOD,HALF

[snow15145]

No: HPFGUIDX 108021

Snow (me) previously:
Slytherin- pureblood, Griffindor-half blood, Ravenclaw-possible
squib parentage (seeing as she represents book knowledge), Hufflepuff-
muggle born.

> Shirley:  I'm assuming that you're not being completely literal 
with 
> this comparison, as we can recall that Ernie MacMillan (who is 
> Hufflepuff) can trace his "family back through nine generations of 
> witches and warlocks" and his "blood's as pure as anyone's" (CoS, 
ch 
> 11, US paperback, p200).  So Hufflepuff is not made up entirely of 
> muggleborns.
> 
Snow:
I was not trying to be literal in the sense that each student would 
be sorted into the house that best represents his bloodline, only 
that each house would be a representative of "A" bloodline. There are 
four possible bloodlines that I can think of and it would be very 
unique of JKR to have the four founders of each house as a 
representative of each of the different blood lineage; pureblood, 
half blood, magical person born to a squib, magical person born to a 
muggle.

It is interesting to apply this thought when reading the sorting 
hat's new song in OOP, where Griffindor and Slytherin were friends 
and Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff were friends. The reason Slytherin left 
was the issue of bloodlines, Salazar demanding to teach only 
pureblood. If the other founders were also purebloods like Salazar, 
why then would they object to Salazar's demands? However it would 
make more sense if their objection were based on personal blood 
related issues. Griffindor, Ravenclaw and Hufflepuff may have taken 
Slytherin's demands as a personal insult on their own wizarding 
capabilities. Salazar left but the remaining three founders (all 
having a tainted bloodline to some extent in Slytherin's view) 
unified the school keeping the houses arranged in their original 
agreed upon way.