[HPforGrownups] another LV - Riddle question

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No: HPFGUIDX 98334

Miller, Gina (JIS) wrote:
> How could Tom Riddle be the heir of Slytherin when he was a mudblood?

Tom Riddle's father was a mudblood.  He's is a half-blood.

"I, in whose veins runs the blood of Salazar Slytherin himself, through 
my mother's side?"  CoS  US hardcover edition page 314

Usually when people say they are descended from someone...like George 
Washington, it's not that both mother and father are Washingtons, it's 
just one side of the family tree that's a Washington.  The other side 
might be from say John Quincy Adams.

Jem