OOP: The MWPP and Snape class (was Snape, MWPP)

[darrin_burnett]

No: HPFGUIDX 62849

Alon:

> By constrast: The movie does have James in Gryffindor (though it 
has 
> him as seeker as well), James /does/ show the qualities for 
> Gryffindor, it would be great if Sirius would manage to escape his -
> clearly Slytherin- family and become a Gryffindor by his choices 
and 
> as for Wormtail, well, he /did/ take it upon him to become an 
> Animagus and spent quite some time in danger to be around Lupin 
> during his changes.
> 
> All in all, I'd say that it'd be quite a shock if James was in any 
> house but Gryffindor, and that he really does fit in the house. But 
> that I think there's at least some reason for doubt. I'd love, more 
> than most other things, for people to completely overthrow all my 
> arguments and prove to me that I"m wrong.
> 


I've long been of the argument that you can't build a friendship like 
MWPP have (and learn animagus spells together) without being in the 
same house, likely the same bedroom, as Ron, Harry, Neville, Dean and 
Seamus are. I mean, James convinced his parents to let Sirius move 
in. That implies a level of trust indicative of being in the same 
Hogwarts house.

I still feel this way, but I admit I was given pause to find out 
that, assuming Snape was in Slytherin, the Dark Arts classes were 
Gryff and Slyth shared (and Prof. Flitwick was the teacher! Although, 
it is possible that he was just the proctor of the OWL exam and the 
regular teacher was somewhere else.)

That seems a bit bold, don't you think? To put Gryff and Slyth in the 
Dark Arts classes during the rise of Voldemort, which, make no 
mistake, probably tinged everything about Hogwarts.

Seems a bit asking for trouble.

Or...the classes weren't Double DADA with the Slyths and Gryffs. They 
were just Gryffs.

Which makes Snape a Gryffindor. 

We have no canon proving his house, only the (very good) assumption 
that you can't be a head of house without having been a member of 
that house.

And consider that there are five beds to a dorm room (assuming it 
wasn't a down year for enrollment), who would that make MWPP's 
roommate? Snape.

Now, you're thinking, as am I, how could Snape NOT know Lupin was a 
werewolf and the others were animagus? Difficult to answer, but here.

If Snape and James really were full of hate for each other, Snape 
probably stayed out of the Gryff common room as much as possible. Or, 
he suspected, but didn't have proof.

Or, he just wasn't all that smart. We already have reason to question 
his alleged mastery of curses and hexes.

OR... going into one of my favorite pet theories. Snape switched 
houses. The animosity between him and the others was so great that 
the Gryff prefects and Moony, Wormtail, Prongs, Padfoot and Snivellus 
themselves all petitioned Dumbledore to allow a resorting. 

Most likely, it was the simpler of the explanations (Occam's Razor) 
and Gryff and Slyth shared a DADA class (which, after V-Mort 
completed his rise to power, D-Dore wisely stopped) Perhaps if Harry 
had looked around even further, he'd have seen a young Bellatrix 
Lestrange or a young MacNair.

Just figured, as I'm on a roll with throwing out pinata posts for 
people to poke, I'd try another one.

Darrin
-- Really wants to know what happened in their first year.