Are there muggleborns in Slytherin?

[conuly]

You'd think there wouldn't be, seeing as how Slytherin was opposed (possibly even for good reasons, read a great fic about that a while back which I should've bookmarked....) to having muggleborns in the school.

But... Slytherin isn't the one deciding who goes where. Everybody believes the hat is. The hat which *Gryffindor* made. (And I, personally, believe that the hat is just confirming the student's own choice as to which house they belong in, but that's another issue.)

The hat only lists "ambition" as the requirement for getting into Slytherin, right? Not some degree of pure blood, that sort of thing...? So couldn't some naive muggleborn who hasn't somehow heard what "all Slytherins are like" think that it's just the place for them?

They'd regret it, but... is it possible?

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[oloriel.livejournal.com]

If "pure blood" had been an absolute requirement for a young wizard to be put in Slytherin, neither Tom Riddle nor Severus Snape, both half-blood, would have ended up there, no?

[conuly]

*nods*

That's my thinking. But what about people without even pretensions of purebloodedness to go back on?