Sirius' House

[HunterGreen]

No: HPFGUIDX 73868

> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, A Featheringstonehaugh 
> <featheringstonehaugh at y...> wrote:
> > Forgive my memory lapses... I think I need to do some re-
> reading...but do we know that Sirius was a Gryffindor? 
> 
>  I guess I've always assumed that he was. given his friendship with 
> James; but considering his family history/relationships/attitudes, 
as 
> well as all the serpent 'memorabilia' in his family home, perhaps 
he 
> was a Slytherin?.?   Consider this: perhaps he hadn't always been 
on 
> the outs with his family; hadn't had the miserable upbringing many 
> assume, but had been a normal boy living a normal wizarding life. 
> Perhaps at first he had been quite the fair- haired boy when he 
left 
> for Hogwarts and was chosen for Slytherin. 

I've considered this as well, and my personal belief is that he 
wasn't in Slytherin. Although it is possible, even likely, that he 
had his parent's ideas on purebloods and all that when he went to 
Hogwarts, the hat sorts people based on their character, which means 
it must be able to read students better than they could probably read 
themselves at that point. This is done at age *eleven* which is 
before most people have their ideals and character really set (for 
example, Hermione is sorted into Gryffindor when the most logical 
house at THAT point in her life would be Ravenclaw, although later 
she proves to have the qualities of a Gryffindor just as much). Think 
of the statement that there isn't a witch/wizard who went bad who 
wasn't in Slytherin, how many people are "evil" at eleven? (although 
I can understand in some cases--such as Malfoy--that its obvious even 
at a young age). Perhaps he was sorted into Gryffindor based on his 
character being someone who fit the qualities of a Gryffindor FAR 
more than Slytherin, and it came as a big shock to him (and his 
family of course), then later was clear to be the correct house. Of 
course, this is all just a theory, its hard to be sure how the 
sorting hat works. 
SECONDLY, I think that him and James/Lupin/Peter were all in the same 
house (it would be very hard for them to be as close as they were if 
they weren't, they were aware every time Lupin went away--which would 
be hard if they were in different houses, and they did certain things 
together, such as making the map and becoming animagi, which would 
require the sort of privacy best suited to a common room), and it 
would seem very hard for James to be in Slytherin, seeing how Sirius 
stated very clearly that he hated the dark arts. 

Again, just my opinion (o;

-Rebecca