Scapegoating Slytherin - The Moral Majority

[mercurybluesmng]

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bboyminn:
> Note that we have seen mixed-bloods in Slytherin House, but we have
> never seen a muggle-born. Of course, the books haven't flat out 
said
> there are no muggle-born in Slytherin, but I don't think we have 
any
> evidence that they ARE there.

MercuryBlue:
True, we have no evidence that they're there. But we also have no 
evidence that they're not.

If you think about it, we know the ancestry of relatively few 
Slytherin characters: the Blacks, Malfoys, Notts, and Gaunts, all 
purebloods, and Snape and Voldemort, both with a Muggle father. We 
can infer from their comments, actions, and choice of company that 
Crabbe, Goyle, Pansy Parkinson, Zabini, and Slughorn are purebloods, 
but we can't be positive.

And think about all the Slytherins we've barely seen and don't know 
diddly about. Pansy's girlfriends, for example. Reserve Seeker 
Harper. Several years' worth of incoming and departing classes that 
haven't called themselves to Harry's attention.

Besides, in theory the key virtue of Slytherin is ambition. You can 
see just as much ambition from someone whose ancestors are all 
gutter trash as from someone whose ancestors are the kings of 
England. Ancestry doesn't have anything to do with it. There ARE 
Muggle-borns in Slytherin, we just don't know who they are.

bboyminn:
> Regardless of whether that is true is somewhat irrelavant, because 
we
> are discussing the nature of Slytherin House, and not the nature of
> the Sorting Hat. My main point was that it is rediculous to believe
> that all Slytherins are evil pureblood racist, when we have NOT 
indeed
> seen all Slytherins nor have we seen a majority of Slytherins. We 
have
> seen a very select group though Harry's eyes. 

MercuryBlue:
Yes, exactly. The Slytherins we've seen who've been granted speaking 
parts are all pureblooded, bigoted, and Death Eater sympathizers if 
not Death Eaters themselves. At least one of the above, anyway. The 
Slytherins who are none of the above, which is probably most of 
them, haven't shown up on Harry's radar.