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Or, Speculations on the Rumor that Snape is Fabulously Wealthy:

First, people tend to assume that any Slytherin is automatically pureblooded; I have actually seen people state this, publicly, as a reason Snape is pureblood, and not be corrected. However, nowhere does anything in canon state that Slytherin only accepts those of pure bloodline; in fact, the opposite is proved true by Tom Riddle's mere presence. Also, the Hat was perfectly willing to consider sorting Harry into Slytherin, despite his mixed (unless one takes the bare minimum approach to defining pureblood) bloodline. Snape could be anything.

Second, the fact that he's not on that tapestry in OoTP, considering we're told that "all" the pureblood families are interrelated, suggests that he's NOT pureblood, at least on his father's side; his mother might be, since we don't know her maiden name, but canonically there is NO evidence to suggest that Snape is either pureblood or wealthy.

Also, consider these facts: I'm pretty sure Snape has been teaching for a long time, well before Voldemort's suspected rise, so that is presumably not the only reason he was hired (I don't have OoTP here to check my timeline of events here, so feel free to offer anything you have to contradict me). Then there is the fact that, to all appearances, this is not a job Snape enjoys. How long would it take him to figure that out? A year? A term? A week? Why didn't he quit ages ago? Possibly because he doesn't have family fortune of Malfoydian proportions to support him in leisure and idleness.

Why do people assume that Slytherin=Pureblood, even when the most famous and influential Slytherin of the whole series has a Muggle in his parentage?
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