Of course Snape is a Slytherin, was: Re: Snape

[nibleswik]

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> Knowing now that Snape is a good guy playing double agent.  What 
house
> do you think he was in??

Slytherin, obviously. I'll say it AGAIN: Slytherin =/= evil. If all 
Slytherins were evil, do you really think the house would still 
exist? I mean, DD was planning on getting rid of Divination, a 
subject he thought to be useless but harmless. Do you really think 
he'd be all happy-bouncy to have a house that produced only ESE 
wizards? Snape was teased because he was a Slytherin, because he was 
interested in the Dark Arts. He was therefore seen as bad. Snape was 
a DE. Now he's a good guy. I may be misunderstanding you, but the 
implication of your statement seems to be, "Snape's good, so he 
couldn't possibly have been a Slytherin." That is simply wrong. 
Furthermore, I'm pretty sure the head of each house was in said 
house. Moreover, Snape is both cunning and ambitious. What does the 
Sorting Hat sing? Does it sing, "Slytherin's the house for all the 
good-for-nothing bastards who will ruin life as we know it", or does 
it sing, "For instance, Slytherin / Took only pure-blood wizards / 
Of great cunning, just like him" (OotP, p. 205)? Yes, it is the 
second. Slytherins are supposed to be cunning, ambitious purebloods. 
The three traits don't automatically spell out evilness. 

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