[HPforGrownups] Sirius, a Slytherin??

[Calypso8604 at aol.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 32436

In a message dated 12/31/2001 12:36:15 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
rachelrenee1 at yahoo.com writes:


> Anyhow, so why do I wonder if Sirius was a Slytherin?  Well, Hagrid 
> states in Diagon Alley in PS/SS that there was no witch or wizard 
> that went bad that didn't come from Slytherin.  At that time, 
> everyone, including Hagrid, thought Sirius was a big time baddie.  So 
> was he a Slytherin?  Or perhaps he was the only Gryffindor who went 
> bad, and so Hagrid didn't mention it, because the *majority* of evil 
> wizards was from Slytherin?
> 


In my opinion, Sirius was a Gryffindor, and I believe ALL the Marauders were 
Gryffindors. Hagrid tends to exaggerate and generalize.

Anyway, one of the things that assures me that they are all in Gryffindor is 
from past speculations of Lily or Hagrid being in another house. Upon being 
asked JKR seemed surprised at the question (I can't remember if it was Lily 
or Hagrid being asked about) and said "Gryffindor, naturally." That statement 
has lead me to believe that people are speculating too much about the 
Marauders by trying to theorize that they weren't Gryffindors. (That probablu 
didn't make sense, but *I* know what I meant ^_^)

Another bit of evidence would be the fact that Siriuis and James are best 
friends. Given the hostility between Gryffindor/Slytherin, and 
Snape/Marauders, it seems unlikely that James Potter would be friend A 
Slytherin, or vice versa.

In Goblet of Fire and Prisoner of Azkaban, Sirius seems to have no trouble 
finding the Gryffindor common room and seems rather familiar with it. If he 
was a Slytherin, how would he know anything about the tower? And I highly 
doubt that James snuck friends into the tower under his cloak. That seems a 
bit too fanfic cliche to be Canon.

Sirius himself seems to more or less have Gryffindor traits, more so than 
Slytherin ones. He's obviously brave, escaping Azkaban and all, and he has 
the "daring and nerve" of Gryffindor. He's not especially power-hungry and 
his only ambition is keeping Harry safe.

So, unless JKR herself states otherwise, I will assume that Sirius was a 
Gryffindor.

Calypso 



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