Lily a Slytherin? (was Sorting)

[Jim Ferer]

No: HPFGUIDX 2023

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "storm stanford" <msmacgoo at h...> 
wrote:

> yes it did but, but remember Dumbledore said that Volde had put
some 
of himself, his skills, in to Harry when he cursed Harry (which is
why 
he is a parseltounge amougst other things) sorry I don't have the
book 
so I don't have the referance. so - I don't think that Lily 
necessaryily was a slytherin though I maintain they can't *all* be 
bad.
 
storm

You are absolutely right, IMO. For some reason this explanation is
too 
simple and straightforward, so there are many flights of fancy 
surrounding the Hat considering Harry for Slytherin and Lily's House, 
etc.  The Hat saw in Harry many of the qualities Salazar Slytherin 
looked for in his handpicked students (Dumbledore told Harry 
exactly that in CoS).  

We know nothing to support putting Lily in any particular House.  She 
was a Head Girl, obviously an excellent student, so she could have 
been a brilliant Ravenclaw. She was courageous before she gave up her 
life for her infant son, just by staying with her husband in hiding 
and resisting Voldemort, so she was great Gryffindor material. She
was 
loyal to her family and to the cause of good, a hallmark of a 
Hufflepuff. We don't know of her ambition, so we don't know about 
Slytherin.

Remember the rule of logic called Occam's Razor: The simplest 
explanation that covers the facts is to be preferred. When we build 
these spun-sugar castles of fancy that has Lily as a closet Death 
Eater or whatever, we're almost certainly going down the wrong path.