Fw: [HPforGrownups] Sirius's house (was Re: More emotional baggage for Snape)

[darrin_burnett]

No: HPFGUIDX 41702

Richelle: 
> 
> True.  But Michael Jordan didn't always play for the Bulls.  And he 
doesn't 
> now.  Perhaps James Potter didn't always play for Gryffindor.  He 
could've 
> played Seeker for Slytherin.  The only substantial evidence for him 
playing 
> Seeker is from the movie, not book, and the only thing about Chaser 
is from JKR 
> interview.  It's possible that he played for both teams if he was 
resorted, 
> perhaps different positions on each.
> 


Richelle, I don't mean to pick on you here, because I don't think 
you've posted all the messages I'm going to respond to here.

I am one person who has floated the idea that it is possible to 
switch houses, but I think it has to be in extreme circumstances -- 
my original theory was centered around relations between Snape and 
his fellow Gryffindors becoming so awful that D-Dore allowed Snape to 
move.

I base this on one flimsy thing. Sirius never says Snape was in 
Slytherin. He says that Snape "ran with a gang of Slytherins." 

I do not believe Sirius was in Slytherin because Snape hated him and 
all of Snape's running buddies were in Slytherin. Therefore, I 
assume, conjecture and intuit that Sirius was not a Slytherin.

But no Headmaster is going to override the Sorting Hat, which 
contains, if I'm not mistaken, pieces of the essence of each of the 
Four Founders, over a school romance or which house has a Seeker or 
Chaser opening.

So, no, I don't believe James switched houses to be with Lily. As 
Percy/Penelope, Cedric/Cho and even Ron/Padma have shown, you don't 
have to be in the same house to go out.

And no, James didn't switch because he could be Seeker or Chaser or 
whatever.

Darrin
-- So, if Percy and Penelope have a little girl, might she be called 
Persephone? And no, it's not prounounced PER-Se-PHONE!