[HPforGrownups] Of course Snape is a Slytherin, was: Re: Snape

[Kathryn Cawte]

No: HPFGUIDX 84539




> Tonya:
> > Knowing now that Snape is a good guy playing double agent.  What
> house
> > do you think he was in??
>
Me (K)

The Hat chooses students based on certain personality traits (or genetic
traits possibly in the case of Slytherin) so it makes sense to me that the
head of each house would be from that house or they wouldn't understand
their students well enough to help them/catch them when they make mischief.
A Ravenclaw (for example) probably wouldn't understand Gryffindors well
enough to help them with any problems and certainly wouldn't be able to
guess what mischief they were up to. Now there are exceptions to this
obviously - Hermione might well have enough Ravenclaw in her to be a
Ravenclaw House Head at some point in the distant future and I think Ron
might just be able to understand the Hufflepuffs (and no that's not meant to
be an insult before the Ron-lovers start trying to throw heavy objects at
me). Anyway, my point is I think Severus would have to be a Slytherin (and
Minerva a Gryffindor, Professor Sprout a Hufflepuff and Filius a Ravenclaw)

K