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

[Tonya Minton]

No: HPFGUIDX 84621

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

Cheekyweebisom: 
> >  Slytherin, obviously. I'll say it AGAIN: Slytherin =/= evil. 
<lots of snipping>

Tonya:
> I wasn't trying to be smart.... I have been enjoying all 
> the "House"
> discussions.  I really thought that Black was a Slytherin and now 
> after
> all these wonderful posts I am not sure.  I was also sure that 
> Snape was
> a Slytherin.  Although I have not found canon to back that up!!   
> I think that good wizards can and do come from Slytherin.  

Me (Cheekyweebisom):
Oh, sure. I'm sorry if I seemed brusque; the "Slytherins are ESE!" 
statements really get to me, though. It just seems SO simplistic. 
I'm interested in why so many people think/thought Sirius was a 
Slytherin. I don't get it at all: he's not particularly 
cunning or ambitious, though he IS very, very brave (and is 
described as such by DD himself), he was best friends with James, 
and his mother hates him. These all seem to point to Gryffindor, 
don't they? What points to Slytherin? I'm very curious.

Cheekyweebisom
 
Now Tonya:  
    I think that Sirius's family points to Slytherin BUT I really
believe that people change and I think that JKR thinks so also.  My
belief is that maybe in first year MAYBE Sirius was put in Slytherin and
I think that as he grew up he decided that was not the life that he
wanted.  Same with Snape, obviously we see that we are missing something
critical, but at some point he decided that dark arts and hurting people
was not for him.  I really believe that people can grow and change.   I
look at my own life and I am not the same person that I was when I was
11 or 12.  I grew up in a wealthy family who has all these ideals that
in my opinion NOW are crap.  Therefore, I don't get along with my
family, and it took me a while to figure out that I was allowed to have
my own opinion and do my own thing.  Change comes from growth.  Just my
opinion, I believe in people and that they have the power to grow and
change!!  I think that both Sirius and Snape are good regardless of
where they started out!!  :)
Tonya (Stepping down from the microphone)  


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