Slytherin House / MALcolm BADdock / Eileen / Sorting Lily

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

No: HPFGUIDX 185708

a_svirn wrote in
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/185639>:

<< Which, in turn, would mean that Slytherin House is a very bad
proposition. Dumbledore is basically saying, "We wrote you off too
early, Severus. You are not all that rotten we shouldn't have lumped
you with all the other baddies after all". Whether Rowling shares his
opinion on both Slytherin and Severus is debatable; however if
Dumbledore himself felt this way, the question is why on earth did he
tolerate the existence of this house of baddies much less expose
students in his care to its corrupting influence. >>

I don't think Dumbledore had the authority to abolish one of the four
Houses. I don't think even the Board of Governors had the authority to
abolish one of the four Houses - the Founders probably left the school
a charter that specified that the original Houses must remain, that
the Castle could be added to but not torn down, and other rules for
continuing to control the school long after they died. They probably
put secret magic traps to enforce those rules even if laws and
government amended the school charter.

Pip!Squeak wrote in
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/185647>:

<< In support of this: look at his name. MALcolm BADdock. Given JKR's
love of names that reveal something about a character, I'd guess that
young Mal is a bad 'un. {g} >>

Pip! You're back! <hugs> Strangely enough, considering that I didn't
take Remus Lupin's name as meaning that his parents wanted him to
become a werewolf, I took MAL BAD as indicating that parents were
Slytherins whose ambition for their child was for him to be a bad 'un.

Carol wrote in
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/185684>:

<< All we see is her cowering when Tobias screams at her (she must be
afraid of being arrested if she uses magic against him or she wouldn't
cower like that). >>

Maybe Eileen, like Merope, was unable to make her magic work while she
was feeling frightened and humiliated by domestic abuse from Eileen's
husband and Merope's father.

Carol wrote in
<http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups/message/185697>:

<< But he didn't hesitate about whether Lily could be a Slytherin. His
saying to her on the Hogwarts Express that she'd better be in
Slytherin (where he hopes and expects to be Sorted) is what starts the
incident with James and Sirius. >>

I think they always Sort in alphabetical order, so of the kids in that
compartment, Sirius Black would have been Sorted first, then Lily
Evans, then James Potter, and last Severus Snape.

So what did Lily say to the Sorting Hat? 
Lily: I hope I'm in Slytherin with Sev.
Hat:  They would be furious at me for putting a Muggleborn into their
House. They call Muggleborns 'Mudbloods'. You would be happier in
Gryffindor.
Lily: I don't want to be in the same House with that bully Sirius Black!

How was the Hat able to talk her into Gryffindor?