another LV - Riddle question

[Mandy]

No: HPFGUIDX 98938

Gina wrote:
> Okay let me clarify - I know it is possible Tom could be
>related "heir" of Slytherin, but why would SS RECOGNIZE a mudblood 
>as his heir?  Does that make more sense? Yes, they could be related, 
>but why would Slytherin condone this mudblood messing up the 
>perfectly pure family tree?

> Jason wrote:
> Maybe Salazar himself wasn't a pureblood. Does it 
> specifically say he was in canon? I've thought all along that he 
> shared the same sort of past as Voldemort and thats just one of the 
>many reasons V turned out the way he did.


Mandy replies:
Although I doubt it, it is possible until we heve canon that 
Slytherin may not have been a pure blood himself.  After all Hitler 
was not a German.  Personally I think S. Slytherin was a pure blood 
but either way, as I wrote before SSlytherin, did not have had any 
choice if Tom Riddle Jr., was his only remaining ancestor and as 
such, the only one who could have opened the Chamber. It would have 
meant abandoning his plan for ever. Beggars can't be choosers even if 
they are evil overlords. 


> djrfdh wrote:
> I still think perhaps Harry's mother was a Slytherin....and it has 
> been suggested, although not confirmed, that she was "muggle-born"


Mandy replies:
Sorry djrfdh, but Jo herself has stated that Lily was in Gryffindor. 
(Even though I would have loved to have had her in Slytherin.)  
And I think it is accepted as canon that Lily and Petunia's parents 
were both muggles as Snape calls Lily a `Mudblood' in OotP, Snapes 
Worst Memory.   As it is stands the term `Mudblood' has only been 
used to insult the offspring of muggles, not half-bloods or any other 
degree of mixed blood status, so it seem that an insult that specific 
would have been corrected it indeed Lily anything but muggle born.

Mandy