[HPforGrownups] Re: OOP: MWPP and their houses/Tonks' purpose

[Malini Tosetti]

No: HPFGUIDX 64943

--- On Fri 06/27, jmgarciaiii < jmgarciaiii at yahoo.com > wrote: 

***does anyone else get the feeling that > Hufflepuff's full of rejects?***

I don't. I think that Hufflepuff gets people that are diligent and loyal and are, in all probability, far greater than the sum of their parts. Where would someone go if they were ambitious but not AS ambitious as a Slytherin? Or clever but not QUITE as clever as a Ravenclaw?

-Joe in SoFla


 Ok, I'm sorry if the topic has already been deeply discussed, but I'm new in the group... I'm really feeling that MWPP were all belonging to the Slytherin house:

1. We know that at least Sirius and James were pure-blood.

2. Their personality sounds more "slytherin" than "Gryffindor" to me (ambitious, showing-off, etc.)

3. After the OWLs exams, when all the students go out of the castle, Snape stays completely alone, while the Marauders immediately get together. Why would Snape not have a single friend to talk to (or to take his defense when bothered by James) from Slytherin if the other male slytherin students of his year were not MWPP? ( I don't know if you follow me... I'm sorry, English is not my mother tongue!) But if there are about 5 students in year who belong to the same house (as for Harry), then the five slytherin students could have been the marauders + Snape, and that would explain why Snape was spending his time alone, and spying his room-mates.

4. James also said to Lily something like "but I have never called you a (mudblood)", after she insults him. Why would he have said that if he was a Gryffindor? Isn't it obvious that Gryffindor are not bothering about the distinction between pure-blood and the others? This sounds more like something meaning "ok, even if I'm a pure-blood slytherin, I do not despise you!"

5. This would also be a reason for Snape to become a DE: if Voldemort had approached him saying he was the only slytherin of the year worth being one, he could have been tempted (especially after having been badly treated all his life by his parents, and by his fellow students!)

6. This would fit with the fact that , as Hagrid said, all dark wizards came from Slytherin. This does not mean that all slytherins turn dark wizards either!

7. This fits also with the fact that, as everybody likes to remind, Harry is NOT his father (he belongs to the house of his mother, who was a gryffindor). Ok, I stop here to begin with, I have to keep 
 on thinking...

-Malini Tosetti