[HPforGrownups] Re: The Profs and Which Houses They were In at Hogwarts

[Olivia]

No: HPFGUIDX 44436

Marina said:
"Yeah, but most of the Death Eaters went to school with Snape, and know
perfectly well what house he was in, so making him head of Slytherin
when he wasn't one isn't going to fool anybody.  If anything, if Snape
was anything in any other house, and Dumbledore went and made him head
of Slytherin, it would only make the Slytherin parents more pissed off
and suspicious.  "Dumbledore made a *Gryffindor* head of Slytherin
house?  Those chivalrous morons are taking over everywhere!"  Draco
would be whining about it all over the school.

No, I see no reason to assume Snape was ever anything but a Slytherin."


I understand your reasoning but what I was trying to say with my badly
worded argument was that there is a "reason to assume Snape was ever
anything but a Slytherin," and that's that there is no canon evidence.

I doubt Dumbledore would care if the Slytherin parents had a problem with a
Gryffindor!Snape being Head of Slytherin. He didn't care when they
complained about Hagrid's class, he didn't care when they complained about
Hagrid being a giant, and he probably wouldn't care if they complained about
Lupin being a werewolf. He said himself during Goblet of Fire that he gets
irate owls from parents all the time:

"Really, Hagrid, if you are holding out for universal popularity, I'm afraid
you will be in this cabin for a very long time," said Dumbledore, now
peering sternly over his half-moon spectacles. "Not a week has passed since
I became headmaster of this school when I haven't had at least one owl
complaining about the way I run it. But what should I do? Barricade myself
in my study and refuse to talk to anybody?" (Goblet of Fire, 454)

I have my own theories about where Snape was while he was a student. Sure,
the obvious would be Slytherin, but if we've learned anything about Harry
Potter, is that everything is not always as it seems. Remember reading the
first few chapters of Sorcerer's Stone? Didn't you "assume" Snape was the
bad guy? All I'm saying, is it's *possible* that Snape was in Gryffindor. As
well as any other House. Until there's concrete canon evidence, it can't be
declared that he was a Slytherin from day one.

Olivia.