Chutzpah and Gryffindor (was top of class)

[foxmoth at qnet.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 5433

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, SHENmagic at a... wrote:
Cleverest" as 
> McGonagall was describing would not necessarily refer to class
placement. She 
> may have been considering  pranks played, erudite excuses, and to
further mix 
> metaphors, chutzpah (An Esoteric term, believed to refer to the
essential 
> latent or actualized distinguishing quality of a Griffindor). 
> 

Sorry, no. Slytherins may also have  chutzpah; who else would murder 
their parents, then plead for mercy as an orphan?  (the classical 
definition of  the essential latent or actualized distinguishing 
quality of a chutzpahnik)
<vbg>
Pippin