[HPforGrownups] Re: Sorting Hat - Slytherin Truth

[feklar]

No: HPFGUIDX 115745

> bboyminn:
>
> So, given that it was more the /risk/ of making the wizard world known
> to muggles that worried Slytherin than an actual hatred of
> muggle/muggle-born/mixed-bloods, I don't see any reason why the modern
> Sorting Hat would exclude less than purebloods from Slytherin. The
> true prerequisites are cunning and ambition.

Feklar:

I do agree that the Hat's decision is based on personality traits, not
bloodlines.  There's nothing in what the Hat or any other character says to
indicate the sorting is based on bloodlines.  I also don't think there has
been a reliable explanation of what Slytherin's motives really were, so this
idea occurred to me:  What if the COS and the basilisk were like a doomsday
device?  He left them there as a last resort for the school, or at least
Slytherin house, if they were ever attacked by magic hating muggles.  Then
the legend of Slytherin leaving a "last line of defense against muggles" was
distorted over the centuries to he left "something to kill muggleborns" and
ultimately LV used it for his own purposes which seem to match the distorted
legend.

Feklar