BOOK 6 ANNOUNCEMENT ON JKR WEBSITE

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No: HPFGUIDX 103313

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "carin_in_oh" <aldhelm at e...> 
wrote:

> 
> Doesn't the Sorting Hat all but confirm that SS was pureblood? 
> 
> "for instance, Slytherin
> took only pure-blood wizards
> of great cunning, just like him"
> 
> (Sorry I don't have the page ref; I just grabbed this from the 
Lexicon.)
> 
> - Carin

"K":

It just says he only took pure-blood wizards. It doesn't say he was 
one. ;-) It's sort of like Voldemort and his dislike of that which 
isn't pureblood and yet he isn't one either.