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⌈ Secret Post #3203 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Unpopular/Controversial Headcanons

[dani_phantasma]

I believe in the theory that, while Slytherin handpicked people of pure blood or known wizard blood himself, the Sorting Hat eventually stopped taking blood into account while sorting. Meaning there are muggleborn Slytherins.

Re: Unpopular/Controversial Headcanons

[diet_poison]

I mean, Harry was a half-blood and the Hat wanted to Sort him into Slytherin, so yeah, I can see it. I think it had more to do with overall attitudes than pure blood. I can easily see the Hat being magically programmed to pick personality traits despite Salazar Slytherin's preferences, since he didn't get his way about a pureblood-only school.

Re: Unpopular/Controversial Headcanons

[dani_phantasma]

Yeah. I mean I've encountered people who were pretty literalist about it. "Slytherin picked purebloods , so you can't have a muggleborn SLytherin."

I wasn't sure how unpopular or popular a view it was overall but it was the only one I could think of that fit the bill so *shrug*.

Re: Unpopular/Controversial Headcanons

[diet_poison]

...Snape is half-blood too. VOLDEMORT is half-blood. that doesn't make any sense!

Re: Unpopular/Controversial Headcanons

[mimi-sardinia.livejournal.com]

Voldemort was a half-blood everyone thought was a muggleborn to start with.

Re: Unpopular/Controversial Headcanons

[diet_poison]

True! Makes it even crazier.

Re: Unpopular/Controversial Headcanons

[dani_phantasma]

Well technically I think the only thing they were discounting was the idea of a muggleborn Slytherin. They believed that being Slytherin meant you had to have some wizard blood, so halfbloods would count.

Re: Unpopular/Controversial Headcanons

[(Anonymous)]

Only as bad OCs, but you knew that already.

Re: Unpopular/Controversial Headcanons

[dani_phantasma]

Just curious what makes you think a muggleborn Slytherin can only be a "bad OC"? Even Pottermore has comments suggesting that not every Slytherin is related to some old wizard name.

Is there anything written in canon other than Slytherin's personal preferences that all the Slytherins are pure or half blood?

Re: Unpopular/Controversial Headcanons

[(Anonymous)]

*gets out the bugspray*

Re: Unpopular/Controversial Headcanons

[(Anonymous)]

Agreed. If purebloods are really as insular as canon makes them out to be, then the only way to keep Slytherin from dying out totally would be to let in muggleborns and other non-purebloods.

Re: Unpopular/Controversial Headcanons

[dani_phantasma]

Exactly.

Also seeing as the hat seems to have a mind and will of its own, and throughout the books frequently talks about how "i wish I didn't have to divide you" and "you should all unite', I can certainly imagine that it wouldn't go on keeping Slytherin only pureblood. It had the mind and personality of all four founders.

Re: Unpopular/Controversial Headcanons

[ketita]

Is this really such an unpopular theory in the fandom? It makes a lot of sense to me.

Re: Unpopular/Controversial Headcanons

[dani_phantasma]

I wasn't sure. It was in one circle I found. I couldn't think of any other headcanons that remotely fit.

Re: Unpopular/Controversial Headcanons

[ketita]

I mean I'm not disputing including it in this thread XD I was just surprised, because it makes sense to me, but at the same time I could totally buy the fandom going off on some Slyterins=purebloods 5eva thing.

Re: Unpopular/Controversial Headcanons

[dani_phantasma]

Yeah true.

Re: Unpopular/Controversial Headcanons

[(Anonymous)]

It never occured to me that the hat might take their blood status into account. I mean, Snape and Riddle are half-bloods and they were in Slytherin and the hat wanted to place Harry in Slytherin as well. So it couldn't have been only pure-bloods that were placed there. Do we know what Slytherin's thoughts on half-bloods were? I was under the impression that he only accepted pure bloods.

Re: Unpopular/Controversial Headcanons

[dani_phantasma]

Yeah I dunno either. I cannot really see the hat going "well you have the right traits but you're muggle born....sorry about that you can just go to...uh Gryffindor...I guess".

Yeah clearly if there are half bloods then there are muggleborns. The muggleborns are probably just smart enough to look at types like Draco and Pansy and go "yep not telling them that".

Though, I imagine they would partially be kept safe by the fact that some puiurebloods might be under the impression that Slytherin only has purebloods. That honestly seems like the kind of thing that bigots would believe.