OOP: Should Snape Have Been A Gryffindor?? (teeny weeny spoiler)

[mlle_bienvenu]

No: HPFGUIDX 63407

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "rowena_grunnionffitch" 
<rowena_grunnionffitch at y...> wrote:
>    Gryffindor wanted to teach the 'Bravest' and for sheer cold 
> courage Severus Snape has few equals in the Wizarding or any other 
> world, (in fact I'd say only Harry could offer him any real 
> competition).
> 
>    Each book has seen him risk his life to defend the good or on 
> behalf of a trio of students he heartily detests. And now he's 
spying 
> on Voldemort on behalf of the Order, a horrifyingly risky 
undertaking 
> as both he and Dumbledore know only too well. 
> 
>    Yet curiously enough few except Dumbledore seem to give Snape 
the 
> credit he deserves. Seemingly his unpleasant manners and sharp 
tongue 
> blind almost everybody else to his better qualities, which are 
> admittedly well hidden!
> 
> "rowena_grunnionffitch"


Mlle (that would be Me):

Well, I don't think it's actually been stated that he's a Slytherin 
although it's heavily implied... plus you'd think Harry'd notice that 
Snape's got Gryffie robes on in his memory...

I agree, Snape has got bravery in spades, but he's also got cunning 
in spades too... one wonders if he was offered a choice of house, 
like Harry... :smirk: