[HPforGrownups] The permanent problem with Slytherin House

[BrwNeil at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 99212

In a message dated 5/23/2004 7:38:38 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
nrenka at yahoo.com writes:
Slytherin demands specific qualities AND the blood requirement.  
Ravenclaw and Gryffindor wanted specific qualities in their 
students, but made no blood requirement.  Hufflepuff comes out on 
the completely opposite end, with no requirements in any category.

I used to not think that the blood issue was so major in the 
Potterverse, but I'm more and more convinced that it *is* the 
driving ideology of the current conflict--and what it will take is, 
in part, Slytherins willing to repudiate the ideology of their 
House. 

Slytherin House must cease to exist. :)
The issue of blood brings up two interesting topics.  One:  Voldemort now has 
Harry's blood in him.  What affect and how important is this.   Two:  The 
sorting head was (using a modern term) programed to sort students into proper 
houses.  One would think that based on Salazar's requirements that only 
purebloods would ever get into Slytherin.  Yet Tom Riddle is certainly a big exception. 
 Was this because he was the heir of Slytherin?   Did the hat know this?   
Have there been other exceptions?

Neil 
The Nefarious Court Jester of the Royal Family of Cliffies


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