Motivations for Joining DEs - Pure blood and Propaganda

[ellecain]

No: HPFGUIDX 140957

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "zgirnius" <zgirnius at y...> 
wrote:
> > Elyse wrote: <snip>
> > So if nobody knew about it, he could have pretended to be 
pureblood
> > well into his fifth year, when he made that Mudblood comment.
> 
> zgirnius:
> I have no opinion as to young Snape's views on the blood purity 
> issue. However, I am not so sure that he posed as a pureblood at 
> school. I am not even sure that he *could* have, had he wanted to. 
> The problem is that his Muggle parent is his father, making him a 
> Snape, not a Prince. The Wizarding World would seem to be small 
> enough that pureblood types in Slytherin for whom this was an 
> important issue would know there were no pureblood Wizarding 
Snapes. 

Elyse: So how come Voldemort was able to masquerade around as a 
pureblood? Okay, even if he wasnt faking it, how can he go around 
telling DE's that he is pureblood? I remember Bella screaming 
herself hoarse at the Ministry about Harry besmirching LV's name 
with his half-blood tongue.
Surely an enterprising, faithful DE like Bella can look up
"A Wizarding Geneology" and try to find out if she is related to her 
master by intermarriage among purebloods. Then she could go around
even more crazed with loyalty since she was distantly related.
I am surprised that no DE has tried to find out LV's parentage by 
now, especially if he has told them he is a descendant of Salazar 
Slytherin and speaks Parseltongue.
The point is,if LV can pretend to be a pureblood so can Snape.

> zgirnius:
> I'm not so sure we can even conclude that Sorting of half-bloods 
into 
> Slytherin is unusual. From the evidence we have, it does not seem 
> that Slytherin House has far fewer students than any other house 
> (rather, the Houses would seem to be of approximately equal size). 
We 
> know plenty of purebloods get Sorted into other houses. (James 
> Potter, Sirius Black, the entire Weasley clan, Neville Longbottom, 
> just to list some Gryffindors).

Elyse: I snipped a little, but they were excellent points, and I 
cant really refute them. I just imagined that Slytherin was a 
predominantly pureblood house since the Sorting hat keeps harping on
about how Slytherin wanted to teach those whose ancestry is purest 
and from what weve seen of the Chamber of Secrets, Salazar Slytherin 
was a lunatic when it came to "purging the school of those who were 
unworthy  of learning magic".
He hid a Basilisk in the castle for future use! And as Ron says, he 
was the one who started the pureblood stuff. I doubt anybody with 
that kind of fanatical zeal for killing Mudbloods would allow too 
many of them into his own house. Not unless they had the necessary 
qualities anyway.

Elyse