Sorting Hat - Slytherin Truth -Additional Thought

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 115733


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "annemehr" 
<annemehr at y...> wrote:
> OoP:
> Said Slytherin, 'We'll teach just those
> Whose ancestry is purest.'
> [...]
> For instance, Slytherin
> Took only pure-blood wizards
> Of great cunning, just like him,
> 
> I notice that the hat never mentions pure-bloodedness until it's
> relating the *history* of who Salazar chose *himself.*  I'm not 
sureif that means anything.  We do know that during the last 50 
or 60 years, the House has had both purebloods and 
half-bloods, but know of no Muggleborns at all. 
> 

Hmmm..."pure-blood wizards...just like him" --What if that 
means, 'not really pure at all'? Could he have been a closet 
halfblood ? Maybe Salazar is the Halfblood Prince!

Pippin