(Anonymous)
I shall just add in that young Sev expected that Lily could sort into Slytherin - apparently based on talent.
It is unknown whether Eileen was a Slytherin or not, but it seems likely that SHE did not stress the pureblood aspect of the house to her son. For all we know, Sev thought Slytherin was the place to be based on hearing about a combination of a Head of House who promoted students in the real world post-Hogwarts and a house that produced a talented Head Boy that had come from an orphanage (without a 'wizarding' surname).
AND that the lack of money (for that Head Boy) had nothing to do with Sluggy's opinion of Tom. We can see in Slughorn's memory that Tom had been a favorite and likely would have been heavily promoted by him IF he had not chosen to disappear from wizarding Britain within a year of Hogwarts. We saw in the Memory that Horace was hoping to push Tom towards the Ministry.
Sounds like the best place to go IF you are a poor kid with talent - of course Sev wanted to be there AND he was convinced Lily could sort there too.
Most surprising of all - Lucius WELCOMES him at his sorting. Lucius - who OUGHT to know just about ALL pureblood families of importance.
Lastly of note: JKR once had a TV interview waaaay back at the beginning entitled Harry and Me. In it she showed a list of students in Harry's year with little symbols next to the names. The symbols indicated House, Gender and Blood Purity. Millicent Bulstrode was a halfblood. Unfortunately, it is practically impossible to find this little chart anymore.
At the time I wondered whether we were supposed to believe that Millicent really WAS part hag/troll like Harry thought (and possibly whether Harry's similar opinion of Flint might also be true - I have since wondered whether Crabbe and Goyle were also supposed to be part troll due to their size and lack of intelligence). However, then we later get the Black Family Tree with a Bulstrode on it - so either Millie's non-pure blood was more recently acquired than the intermarriage with the Blacks - or she comes from a lesser (non-pure) branch of her own tree.
And yet we have Sirius complain about how his ENTIRE family was dark and blood-obsessed AND sorted into Slytherin - even when it is easily proven untrue by the tapestry. -- Hwyla
It is unknown whether Eileen was a Slytherin or not, but it seems likely that SHE did not stress the pureblood aspect of the house to her son. For all we know, Sev thought Slytherin was the place to be based on hearing about a combination of a Head of House who promoted students in the real world post-Hogwarts and a house that produced a talented Head Boy that had come from an orphanage (without a 'wizarding' surname).
AND that the lack of money (for that Head Boy) had nothing to do with Sluggy's opinion of Tom. We can see in Slughorn's memory that Tom had been a favorite and likely would have been heavily promoted by him IF he had not chosen to disappear from wizarding Britain within a year of Hogwarts. We saw in the Memory that Horace was hoping to push Tom towards the Ministry.
Sounds like the best place to go IF you are a poor kid with talent - of course Sev wanted to be there AND he was convinced Lily could sort there too.
Most surprising of all - Lucius WELCOMES him at his sorting. Lucius - who OUGHT to know just about ALL pureblood families of importance.
Lastly of note: JKR once had a TV interview waaaay back at the beginning entitled Harry and Me. In it she showed a list of students in Harry's year with little symbols next to the names. The symbols indicated House, Gender and Blood Purity. Millicent Bulstrode was a halfblood. Unfortunately, it is practically impossible to find this little chart anymore.
At the time I wondered whether we were supposed to believe that Millicent really WAS part hag/troll like Harry thought (and possibly whether Harry's similar opinion of Flint might also be true - I have since wondered whether Crabbe and Goyle were also supposed to be part troll due to their size and lack of intelligence). However, then we later get the Black Family Tree with a Bulstrode on it - so either Millie's non-pure blood was more recently acquired than the intermarriage with the Blacks - or she comes from a lesser (non-pure) branch of her own tree.
And yet we have Sirius complain about how his ENTIRE family was dark and blood-obsessed AND sorted into Slytherin - even when it is easily proven untrue by the tapestry. -- Hwyla