Sirius' House

[Melody]

No: HPFGUIDX 44433

Crysti asked:

>>>> Ok, tell me if this is new to anyone, or if this is a really old
thought that just came into my head, but who else has thought that at
least Sirius should be a Slytherin?  I mean, Hagrid was totally
convinced that Sirius was a Death Eater, right? And Hagrid said that
there wasn't a Death Eater that didn't come from Slytherins. <<<<

I reply:

First, welcome to the group.  :)

This was actually the first question I asked myself upon reading PoA.
 Seems the evidence could speak in many directions.  I find two
theroies possible.

1.  Black is a Slytherin.
This is based on the fact that the WW assumes Black is a deadeater
based on his murderous tendencies.  Since Hagrid does say that
"there's not a witch or wizard who went bad who wasn't in Slytherin",
then we can put two and two together and say that Black was in
Slytherin.

or

2.  Black is a Gryffindor.
JKR loves to put her "favorite" characters in Gryffindor.  I know that
is a huge leap to say, but she does seem to favor that house.  Most of
the good and active characters are a Gryffindor.  So from our reading
of the series, we naturally and subliminally place James, Black, and
Lupin in Gryffindor.  That is the only reason we would place Black
there.  Since Lupin and James seem like natural Gryffindors, and Black
is thier bestfriend, we place Black in Gryffindor.

I see many holes in these theories.  Since we as the reader place
James automatically in Gryffindor, we assume his bestfriend Black is
with him.  Easy enough to assumes as many have said here.  This can
not be assumes of course, but is rather natural.  Those who we spend
the most time with are usually our closest friends.  Being in
different houses makes it rather difficult to find time outside of
classes and commonrooms to become bonded like brothers.

So then my opinion, based solely on Hagrid's words, is that we can
place Black in Slytherin and also James, oh and thus also Lupin and
Pettigrew.  That way, Black can be perceived as bad, and the other
three can still be good.  Also, Pettigrew can be bad after PoA and
still follow the "rules".  Of course, this goes against our perceived
reading of characters which is what JKR loves.

Gryffindor is the best house only because we have been told it
is...now.   Maybe it wasn't always.  Slytherin could of been the
"cool" house to be in before a lot of them turned up to become
deadeaters.

JKR is meticulous about her "major" details which I believe this is.
If not then this is a FLINT and an annoying one at that.

So either Black was in Slytherin, or Hagrid has his facts wrong, or
JKR made an error.

Melody