[HPforGrownups] Re: Draco and Slytherin House (was: Harsh Morality - Combined answers)

[Janet Anderson]

No: HPFGUIDX 121368

Someone said:
>
> > If Slytherin House is known to not have any Muggle-borns, as all
> > the other victims are, why doesn't Lee Jordan raise that point as
> > well?  Granted, Jordan isn't a detective, and he's playing to the
> > room, but still, it suggests that perhaps Slytherin is no longer
> > perfectly pure-blooded (if it ever was).

And Nora (I think) replied:
>
>It seems to be speaking more of the fact that no Slytherins are
>getting nailed.  This makes sense, of course, with Tom Riddle
>Slytherin Fanatic controlling the snake.  Lee, competitively minded
>that he is, picks up on the House thing first: perhaps because if
>you say 'Slytherin', it's just explicitly *known* that there are no
>Muggleborns there.

I am in the process of re-reading *Chamber of Secrets,* and last night I 
came to the part where the Polyjuiced Harry and Ron follow Draco to the 
Slytherin common room. The Slytherin password was "Pure-blood."

I don't know who gives out the passwords for Slytherin (I think for 
Gryffindor it's the Fat Lady), but is it likely that a password like that 
would be used by a house with Muggleborns?


Janet Anderson