The good Slytherin / Salazar

[zgirnius]

No: HPFGUIDX 132396

 Potioncat wrote:

> So a Pureblood who is cunning and ambitious would go to Slytherin. A 
> Pureblood was not brave, clever or loyal would go to Slytherin. A 
> cunning, ambitious Muggle-born or Half-blood would go to Hufflepuff. 
> But you could be an ambitious, cunning Pureblood who has absolutely 
> no delusions of superiority based on blood and end up in Slytherin.
> 
> At least, that's the way I read the Sorting Hat. JKR may not agree 
> and it is afterall, her toy.

zgirnius: 
Actually, a Half-Blood who is cunning and ambitious would go into 
Slytherin. At least, if his name happened to be Tom Riddle... ;-) 
Which makes me wonder, where would a cunning, ambitious Muggleborn go? 
I don't recall ever seeing canon assertion that there are no 
Muggleborns in Slytherin. (Certainly, if there are they must spend a 
lot of time avoiding Draco's little clique...but that might be why we 
have not met them yet.)