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

[Silverthorne]

No: HPFGUIDX 99422

> Oops...song was way too bloody long...(flipped back a page...^^;)
>
> 'Said Slytherin, "We'll just teach those whose ancestry is purest...
> For instance, Slytherin
> Took only pure-blood wizards
> Of great cunning, just like him...'
>
> Silverthorne, correcting her own research mistake!
> Okay, so it *is* canon--late cannon. but cannon.
>
> Seems more like JKR added it in later to cover her own arse in making
> Slytherin House justifiably 'evil'.
>
> Not fair, Jo! Should have had a hint other then other people just saying
it
> before book four!
>
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> From: Silverthorne
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> Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 5:03 PM
> Subject: Re: [Hogs_Head] Re: Fw: [HPforGrownups] The permanent problem
with
> Slytherin House
>
>
> 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...
>
>
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