Fw: [Hogs_Head] [HPforGrownups] The permanent problem with Slytherin House

[Silverthorne]

No: HPFGUIDX 99420

**Sending this also here, since SSSusan seems to have asked both
boards...***--Anne


> If that were true--if the
> emphasis on purebloodedness had phased out over the years--then why
> does the Sorting Hat still bring it up during Sorting?  THAT is my
> problem with it--it's still given as an attribute of Slytherins, is
> it not?
>
> Or have I made that up and the Sorting Hat doesn'e mention that?
> Have I just extrapolated from what the students were told about the
> four founders' falling out?
>
>
>
> Silverthorne:
>
> Hmmmmm...*gets books*
>
> Book 1:
> '...Or perhaps in Slytherin, You'll make your real friends
> Those Cunning folk use any means, to achieve their ends....'
>
> Book 2:
> Missed due to Whomping Willow.
>
> Book 3:
> Missed due to Dementor attack
>
> Book 4:
> 'Shrewd Slytherin from fen...(snip)
> And power-hungry Slytherin
> Loved those of great ambition....
>
> Book 5:
> 'The Houses that, like pillars four
> Had once held up the school
> Now --turned upon each other-- and,
> --Divided, sought to rule--....(snip)
> What with dueling and with fighting
> And the clash of friend on friend
> And at last there came a morning when old Slytherin departed
> And though the fighting then died out
> He left us quite downhearted
> And never since the founders four
> have wittled down to three
> Have the houses been united
> As they were once meant to be..."
>
> Lost about ambition, but no mention of Pure Blood in the Hat's songs--So I
> think that came afterwards with those that twisted Salazar's intents...
>