Slytherin House / MALcolm BADdock / Eileen / Sorting Lily

[pippin_999]

No: HPFGUIDX 185722

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)"
<catlady at ...> wrote:
> 
> 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
theirHouse. 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?

Pippin:
I figure it went more like this:

Lily: I hope I'm in Slytherin with Sev.
Hat: Hmmm, bright mind, plenty of power, oh yes. Muggleborn, are you?
Well, never mind, you must have wizard ancestry, that's obvious.
Lily: But I don't! And there's nothing wrong with coming from a Muggle
family! 
Hat: No? Are you sure? Well, then better be GRYFFINDOR!

 Lily could have considered her Muggle blood inferior  and attributed
all her talents to an unknown magical bloodline. In that case she
might have been admitted to Slytherin just as Riddle was. 

Pippin
(joins Catlady in hugs to Pip!squeak)