Prophecy Pub/Less Than The Meanest Ghost/Black Family Tree

[pippin_999]

--- In the_old_crowd at yahoogroups.com, "nrenka" <nrenka at y...> wrote:

> A nice supposition, but the elusive Muggle-born Slytherin is still an 
> entirely fanonical creation.  Half-blooded (Muggle and wizard) 
> Slytherins are canon, but still no dice on going all the way.  I 
> suppose that there could be some plot thread with these revelations 
> further down the line, but I don't see it happening; this is the kind 
> of thing that it would be nice to get a simple yes/no on from the 
> website.
> 
> IMO, it's still thematically most coherent to have no Muggle-born 
> Slytherins, that being a directive given the Sorting Hat by Salazar and 
> thus remaining with Hogwarts despite its demerits.
> 

Pippin:
Heh heh. That presupposes you know what the theme is. And Muggleborn
Slytherins are no longer an entirely fanonical concept.

Slughorn declares that he used to tell Lily she ought to have been in his
House. (HBP ch 4)

 While he's not the Hat, and it's not proof that Muggleborns are
eligble, he was head of Slytherin, and ought to know who was eligible
and who wasn't.

I remind you (again) that Slytherin was noted for his disregard of rules.
Certainly there are loads of Slytherins who aren't "of great cunning"
so why couldn't the Hat be just as flexible about pure blood?

Pippin