Lily a Slytherin? (was Sorting)

[Jinx]

No: HPFGUIDX 1975


> Hello, my name is Donna Rae and I'm new on the list.  So if this has
already been discussed, forgive the post.  But...didn't the sorting hat
suggest that Harry should be a Slytherin?

It did.  But Harry chose otherwise.  And there's been too much comparing of
Harry to James for them to be in different houses, and for that not to have
been mentioned.  I don't know, James just doesn't seem Slyth material to me,
he seems much more of a Gryff.  I do think Lily and James's houses will be
important, as there's been no mention of them yet.  But I think that all the
Marauders except Wormtail were probably in Gryff.  Lily may also have been
in a different house.  In fact, maybe she was a Slyth and that's why Voldy
said she didn't have to die.  Also if she was a Slyth, she'd have known
Snape quite well, giving weight to the Snape being in love with Lily theory.

It would also explain why the hat wanted to make Harry a Slyth, if his
mother was one, and he's inherited those qualities.  But if his father was a
Gryff, and Harry identified more with that side of himself, then that's why
the hat put that down as the next choice.

It'd make a great twist, wouldn't it?  Harry seeing the Slyths as the source
of all things evil, then finding out his mother was one.  Imagine the effect
on Harry.

An even better one would be to find out that Lily was not just a Slyth, but
a closet Death Eater, but the only evidence I can find for that is Voldy
saying she needn't have died...

Jinx