The Profs and Which Houses They were In at Hogwarts

[marinafrants]

No: HPFGUIDX 44440

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Olivia" <olivia at r...> wrote:
> 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.
> 

But there is canon evidence: Snape is head of Slytherin House; he's 
described as having been "part of a gang of Slytherins"; he's deeply 
partial to Slytherin, much more partial than mere professional duty 
as House head would require him to be.  This is not conclusive or 
incontrovertible evidence, but it's evidence nontheless, and it 
points toward Snape being a Slytherin.  There's nothing in canon to 
say that he wasn't.  Sure, there's nothing to make it impossible, 
but there's also nothing to make it impossible that Minerva 
McGonagall is having a torrid love affair with Stan Shunpike.  That 
doesn't mean I'm going to believe that she is.

> 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. 

IIRC, the original argument that I was replying to suggested that 
Dumbledore made Snape head of Slytherin in order to bolster his 
image as a Death Eater (presumably because it would help his cover 
if he should ever go back to spying).  My point was if Snape wasn't 
a Slytherin, such a move would be more likely to weaken his image 
than strengthen it.  Dumbledore may not care what the Slytherin 
parents think of him, but presumably he cares about the position 
he's putting Snape into.

Also, given the rumor mill that Hogwarts is, I think if Snape was 
anything other than a Slytherin, word would've gotten around.  In 
fact, it would get around in some totally overblown way.  If he was 
a Gryffindor, everyone would be going around saying he was really a 
Hufflepuff, and there would be all sorts of elaborate and totally 
inaccurate theories about how he ended up as head of Slytherin. The 
student body's total silence on the subject suggests to me that 
there's nothing there to talk about.

Marina
rusalka at ix.netcom.com