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

[Richelle Votaw]

No: HPFGUIDX 44437

Spookykat writes:

> Based upon current personality traits, which houses do you think
Voldemort,
> Dumbledore, McGonaghal, Snape, Sirius, Hagrid, etc. did the Sorting Hat
send
> them to while attending?

Oh, goody, just the topic I'd been waiting for.  I know it comes around once
in a while, so I was biding my time.  I have a great many theories on the
matter, so get comfortable! :)

We'll start with the easy ones:

Voldemort--Slytherin, as Tom Riddle IS Voldemort and was in Slytherin.
That's fact.

Dumbledore--If we can believe Hermione (and when has she been wrong?) he was
in Gryffindor.  Can't see him as anything else, considering the sword of
Godric Gryffindor is in his possession and so on.

McGonagall--more than likely Gryffindor.

Hagrid--Gryffindor, based on JKR interview.

And now the fun begins!

First, let me define a term I'm using.  "second house" being the alternate
house the Sorting Hat could've or may have considered sending them to.

Snape--The line must be read VERY carefully, but it is clearly says Snape
was "part of a gang of Slytherins who nearly all turned out to be death
eaters." Unless it's worded wrong, you can't be *part* of a gang of
Slytherins if you're not a Slytherin.  You can run with a gang of
Slytherins, hang out with a gang of Slytherins, etc.  But not be "part of a
gang of Slytherins."  Unless, as I said, the wording slipped by.  Anyhow, I
do think that Snape's "second house" would be Gryffindor (as in Harry's
"second house" would've been Slytherin).

Sirius Black--Here it gets tricky. :)  I'll explain/elaborate further on.  I
think he was in Slytherin.

James Potter--Gryffindor, most likely.

Peter Pettigrew--Hufflepuff ("second house" would've been Slytherin)
Hufflepuffs are known for loyalty, right?  Sirius Black could've put his
trust in that characteristic when he advised the Potters to use Peter for
their secret keeper.  He thought he'd be loyal, since he was a Hufflepuff.
Also, unless there's a lot we don't know about Peter, I see no Gryffindor
characteristics.  I know he's compared to Neville a lot, but Neville is
brave.  Just in a very scared, nervous way.  But he is brave.

Remus Lupin--Ravenclaw.  Based on the theory that the Mauraders all came
from a different house, it's the only one not taken. :)  And he did make a
good professor, he must be pretty smart.

All right, now time to elaborate.  First of all, McGonagall says (at
Hogsmeade) of James Potter and Sirius Black "Never saw one without the
other, did you?"  Flitwick adds "You'd have thought Black and Potter were
brothers!  Inseparable!"  Okay, so what's unusual about that?  Best friends
are often that way.  Look at Ron and Harry.  In Snape's words "the dream
team."  But, of course, they're in the same house.  Look at Fred and George.
Of course, they are brothers.  But they're also in the same house.  In the
Shrieking Shack, when Lupin is telling the story to Harry, Ron, and
Hermione, he says "Sirius thought it would be--er--amusing, to tell Snape
all he had to do was prod the knot on the tree trunk with a long stick, and
he'd be able to get in after me.  Well, of course, Snape tried it--if he'd
got as far as this house, he'd have met a full grown werewolf--but your
father, who'd heard what Sirius had done, went after Snape and pulled him
back, at great risk to his life."

Okay, they're inseparable.  But suppose they're in different houses?  They'd
have to go to bed in different dorm rooms.  They'd sit at different tables
when they're sitting with their houses.  Sirius would have plenty of time to
talk to Snape without James hearing it.  James only heard about it later,
apparently only just in time to go and stop Snape.  It would also explain
why Snape hates Sirius Black so much.  Besides the fact he tried to kill
him, basically.  He was in his own house and tried to kill him.  Now, what
about after the attempted murder?  Dumbledore was aware of it.  He told
Snape his memory was as good as it ever was.  And he forbid Snape (as a
student) to tell about Lupin being a werewolf.  All four mauraders and Snape
were in the same year.  Lupin says "Finally, in *our* fifth year, they
managed it (animagus transformation)."  Emphasis added, but he was talking
about Sirius, James, and Peter, of course.  Later on Lupin says "Severus was
very interested in where I went every month.  We were in the same year, you
know, and we--er--didn't like each other very much."  So it definitely
sounds like all five were in the same year.  What to do once one of them
tries to murder another if he's in the same house?  Can't very well sleep in
the bed next to him.  I think one of them was moved, whether Sirius or
Snape, I can't be sure.  But I'd venture it was Snape moved to Gryffindor,
where he had to look at James Potter every morning when he woke up and
remember the Whomping Willow incident.

It would also explain how they have such a nice map of Hogwarts, if they had
passwords to all four houses.

Olivia writes:

> I always thought it was part of his act. He's trying to play the part of a
> Death Eater, so one would assume he would be in Slytherin. If Dumbledore
> were to make him Head of Hufflepuff, it might take away a little of his
> thunder. :) Snape as Death Eater is neither very huffley nor puffley, but
> he's very Slytherish.

Okay, one problem.  Snape hasn't always been playing the part of a DE.  He
WAS a Death Eater!

Hickengruendler writes:

> I think, that Joanne K. Rowling has stated, that all the Marauders
> were in Gryffindor, this includes logically Sirius.

Where did you hear that?  I have never, ever heard her mention any of the
houses of any of the Marauders.

> Hagrid is also a
> Gryffindor, I think, but this is just a personal feeling.

JKR stated in an interview that he was in Gryffindor.

Richelle

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