Who can be in Slytherin Was: Re: Greatest Fear/greatest Hope

[Andrew]

No: HPFGUIDX 121454


--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "dumbledore11214" 
<dumbledore11214 at y...> wrote:
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> A-Mac:
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> I have this vague memory of a Slytherin that was not a pure blood. 
> I'm sure that he she or it was ridiculed in some way, does anyone 
> know what I am speaking of.
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> Alla:
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> Yes, but what does it prove, if I may ask? Tom was a half blood, 
so 
> theoretically Slytherins could be half bloods (I sincerely that 
they 
> could be muggleborns, but in theory anything is possible)
> 
> What determinitive is a mindset, IMO, or at least a predisposition 
> to certain way of thinking.
> 
> I can see a half-blood wisard thinking that purebloods are better 
> than everybody else quite clearly. It is harder to iamgine 
> muggleborn doing so.
> 
> Again, could you please clarify your point?
> 
> 
> JMO,
> Alla

People generalize that all Slytherins are pure bloods and all 
Slytherins share the same mindset. I was merely showing that if they 
aren't all pure bloods then they might not all have the same mindset.

A-Mac