OOP: MWPP and their houses/Tonks' purpose

[kiricat2001]

No: HPFGUIDX 64894

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "magicalme9" <magicalme9 at y...> 
wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, michelle.pagan at c... wrote:
> Snip 
> > Though the possibility that the Marauders were in different 
houses 
> have come 
> > up many many times, I wonder if OoP gives us some evidence that 
> this is 
> > perhaps true, at least in regards to Sirius.  I base this on the 
> fact (OoP, US 
> > Ed. p. 67) of all the snakes in various household items in the 
> Black house. 
> > Could this be a clue that the Blacks in general, much like the 
> Weasleys, and 
> > Creeveys, etc. belonging to one house, all belonged to Slytherin? 
I 
> know we 
> > can't definitely tell this, since in GoF I believe Hermione tells 
> us that the 
> > Patil sisters are in different houses.  
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> > -Polaris
> 
> The thought of Sirius being in Slytherin struck me, too. On the 
other 
> hand there are several reasons that go against this. 1) Sirius 
hates 
> his family, his house and all that goes with it. So at the sorting 
he 
> may have asked (like Harry) not to be sorted into Slytherin, or was 
> sorted into Gryffindor straight away. 2)Imagine Sirius being a 
> Slytherin and him and James being horrible to Snape. I bet Sirius 
> wouldn't survive one hur in the Slytherin common room or the 
> dormitory. There would have been constant fights. 3)IMHO opinion 
the 
> Marauders were all in the same house, just due to the fact, that 
they 
> noticed Lupin missing once a month - hence he wasn't in the 
dormitory 
> and second and more important reason: they fugured out how to be 
> animagi. Surely they didn't work on that in broad daylight in the 
> library, but rather secretly at night, probably sneaking books from 
> the restricted section. 

I'm sure that the vast majority of the Blacks were Slytherins for 
generations.  I rather think that Sirius was not.  I can see him 
being sorted into Gryffindor, and that causing great distress and 
shame to his parents.  And, of course, then Regulus comes along and 
assuages some of that feeling by being sorted into Slytherin. The 
sorting of the brothers becomes one more example of Regulus being the 
perfect son and Sirius being the blood traitor.

Marianne