[HPforGrownups] Re: good and bad slytherins/Disappointment and Responsibility

[Barbara Key]

No: HPFGUIDX 175012

> Potioncat:
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> Why does he think his Muggle-born friend could get
> into Slytherin? 
> And why is he so sure he will. Something seems a bit
> off. Although I 
> can see him thinking that he's good enough to get in
> and that being 
> half-blood won't matter in 'his' case. I'm still
> surprised he was so 
> well accepted into the House.

 
Before entered into Slytherin House, Severus didn't
have any trouble believing that Muggle-born  or half
blood were just as good of wizards as full blood. He
told Lily that it didn't make any difference if you
were muggle-born or wizard-born. He wanted to go into
that house because it emphasized brain over brawn (I
would have wanted to be that house also and for the
same reason). It was only after he had been in the
house for several years that he started using the term
mudblood.

There was something going on in the house, outside of
view of the others that was turning normal 11 year
olds into bigots and death eaters.

I found the fact that the first person to greet and
welcome Severus into Slytherin was Lucius Malfoy.
(Apparently, the hatred of half born wasn't in Slytherin
yet.) I wonder if that was the reason he favored Draco
so much. 

Barbara