Slytherins (was Re: /Hurt/comfort/Elkins post about Draco AND Philosopher stone

[zgirnius]

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> Alla:
> 
> Eh? You mean I never met them? Well, of course not, but since we had
> been told that this is one of the criteria based on what they are
> getting sorted in Slytherin, I think it is a valid one.

zgirnius:
Prejudice of any kind is NOT a canon criterion for Sorting into 
Slytherin. Being pureblooded is. (Along with cunning, ambition, 
determination, etc.). A pureblood can no more help being the child of 
pureblood wizards than a Muggleborn can help being the child of 
Muggles. And purebloods can be found at all ends of the pureblood 
supremacy spectrum: extreme racists (the Malfoys, Bellatrix), people 
who probably have some prejudice they can and do overcome (Horace 
Slughorn, who seems to be quite fond of the Muggleborn Lily Evans, 
though he was probably initially surprised by her considerable talent 
for magic), and people who oppose pureblood prejudice (James Potter, 
the Weasley family, Sirius Black).

Oh, and to the final list, I would add Andromeda Black, a pureblood 
and Slytherin who married a Muggleborn...