Slytherin Sirius?, was: Of course Snape is a Slytherin

[nibleswik]

No: HPFGUIDX 84737

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Cheekyweebisom:
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> 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.

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.

Me (Cheekyweebisom):
But families aren't always in the same houses. Parvati and Padma 
Patil spring immediately to mind. Granted, a family like the Blacks 
would make Slytherin-hood likely, but not definite. DD statement in 
CoS that our choices make us who we are far more than our abilities 
could be easily applied to Sirius, simply changing the 
word "abilities" for the word "heritage". Sirius decided not to be 
what his family was very early on.

Tonya:
> 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. <snip>

Me (Cheekyweebisom):
Do you mean that you think he switched houses? If so, JKR's given us 
no indication that that EVER happens, and like I said, his 
personality and his choices all point, if not to Gryffindor, then at 
least to a house other than Slytherin.

Cheekyweebisom, who is becoming increasingly obsessed with her hopes 
that Draco Malfoy will become a three-dimensional character, and 
ideally, not an evil one, and who is really starting to consider the 
possibility of ESE!Lupin.