Slytherin MWPP

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No: HPFGUIDX 85087

 "Kathryn Cawte"  wrote: 

You know one of the arguments for James and/or Sirius not being 
Slytherins
> is that they were probably all the same house, but what if they 
were *all*
> Slytherins? Peter, certainly, comes across as being cunning (and 
possibly
> ambitious, hanging with the big shots all the time) rather than 
brave, Remus
> has a deep dark secret and certainly seems a little cunning to be 
able to
> protect it so well, Sirius is a pureblood of the type that 
Slytherin seemed
> to love, certainly cast in the same mould as the Malfoys and we 
assume James
> to be a pureblood - he's certainly ambitious enough, being an 
arrogant show
> off, big shot quidditch player and no slouch academically either 
for that
> matter. The 'not a witch or wizard that went bad that wasn't in a 
Slytherin'
> comment could be a form of double bluff, we're supposed to find out 
about
> Peter and thing, ah, that's all exaggeration, that stuff about 
Slytherins
> because we assume Peter is a gryffindor but he actually turns out 
to be a
> Slytherin all along ....


I'm leaning more and more to MWPP all being in Slytherin.  There is 
certainly support for James being a Gryff, but JKR has not explicitly 
said so.  The interview question where she was asked whether James 
was a Seeker for Gryffindor just like Harry (paraphrasing here) and 
her response was "He was a Chaser"  can be interpreted either way.  
Sirius tells us that Snape was a part of a group of Slytherins, most 
of whom became DEs. That can be interpreted as saying that Snape hung 
with a group of Slyths that was different from the MWPP group of 
Slyths.  

Okay, here's my first prediction for future books.  We'll find out 
that Snape and MWPP were all Slyths in the same year.  Snape was odd 
man out because he more firmly believed in the whole pure-blood 
superiority thing.  Thus he was alienated from his dormmates, J,S,R, 
and P.  However, he was taken in by some of the other, older Slyths 
including Lucius and the Black cousins, who, in turn despised Sirius, 
for not buying into the blood purity ideal. They also wouldn't like 
James, Remus or Peter, but could tolerate James to a certain extent 
because of his Quidditch talents. The scene is set for a 7 year intra-
house battle between MWPP and many of the other Slyths.  

This can also tie in with the victimized Snape we see in OoP.  By the 
time they're in their fifth year, Snape's older allies like Lucius 
and Bellatrix have left Hogwarts.  He is now more vulnerable to a 
joint attack by Sirius and James.  Of course, this warped, little 
theory doesn't take into account that if the 5 were all in the same 
year, Snape risked being hexed into oblivion every time he went to 
sleep at night.  And, if they were in the same house and Snape wanted 
the teachers to catch MWPP out-of-bounds at night, all he would have 
to do is wait until they went out and then alert a teacher to wait 
for them at the entrance to the common room.

Random thoughts by someone who needs more coffee...

Marianne