House Choice doesn't Equal Personality for Life

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No: HPFGUIDX 85232

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Jen Reese" <stevejjen at e...> wrote:
> On several different threads I've seen comments about how someone 
> couldn't be evil because they were in Gryffindor, or that person 
> *is* evil so they must have been in Slytherin.
> 
> Why does the Sorting Hat decision at age 11 mean you will have those 
> characteristics your entire life? Personally, I'd like to find out 
> MWPP were in Slytherin or someone from Gryffindor is a betrayer. 
> Meaning all the houses have postitive and negative characteristics, 
> and that being in a certain house doesn't predetermine your entire 
> existence. 

I haven't read my books for a while now but I thought that we know
that James and his friends were all in Gryffindor.  And Snape was
Slytherin.  Isn't that right?  If that is right then that means that
Wormtail was a death eater and so not all of the Gryffindor's are
good.  And Snape is good so that's another thing that makes it so that
being in one house doesn't mean that you will stay the way that house is.


 
> It is canon that there were a group of Slytherins in the MWPP era 
> who all became DE's, but that seems to be the extent of 
> generalizations we can make about a group of students in one house 
> (correct me if I'm wrong).

That is what I thought.

This is my first post by the way.

Fifty