{OotP} SPOILER: Is Sirius a Slytherin?

[kiricat2001]

No: HPFGUIDX 63097

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "ratalman" <ratalman at y...> 
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> Pardon me if this is already common knowledge, but does 
> canon state that Sirius was a Gryffindor?

No, it doesn't.  

  From all indications of 
> the decorations and art works, such as the serpent motifs, etc in 
> the Black ancestral home, as well as Sirius' entire family tree, 
> wouldn't Sirius have been sorted into Slytherin?  I guess I am 
> assuming that everyone else in his family had been in Slytherin.  
> This has been worrying me!  Obviously Harry was able to choose 
> Gryffindor over Slytherin, so it is possible that Sirius broke with 
> his family's tradition, and chose Gryffindor too. 

The Blacks certainly seem like a Slytherin family.  Perhaps the start 
of Sirius' break with his family was a result of being sorted in 
Gryffindor, if indeed that's where he was. Can't you just hear Mum 
Black screaming about that?

Marianne