Is Snape a pureblood?, was: Of course Snape is a Slytherin, was: Re: Snape

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> Eloise:
> Actually, this was Hagrid in Diagon Alley answering Harry's 
questions, just after his first encounter with Draco.
> 
> This being the case, it has been used as evidence that *Sirius* 
>was a Slytherin as at that point, Hagrid believes that it was 
>Sirius who betrayed the Potters and murdered Peter and the Muggles. 
>Some would argue that this is just Hagrid speaking very loosely. 
>OTOH, given what we now know of Sirius' family, then his being 
>sorted into Slytherin isn't ludicrous.

  When Sirius was asked if he was ever prefect he responded that 
Lupin was the good boy as he and James were often in detention 
together.  If they had been in different houses, this wouldn't have 
mattered.  We know James played quidditch for the Gryffindors so it 
seems a safe guess that Sirius and Remus probably were as well.  

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