[HPforGrownups] Re: MWPP and ...Snape?

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No: HPFGUIDX 88669


--- elizabeth1603 at yahoo.com wrote:
> "lizvega2" wrote: 
> > I still think Jo has been skirting the house issue
> for the 
> > Marauders, which leads me to think that there's
> something of 
> > importance there. My theory: They were all in
> Slytherin, and Snape 
> > was the fifth!

> I don't have my book with me, but is there not a
> scene, under a tree, 
> next to the lake, where Harry thought Ron resembled
> James and said 
> (paraphrasing) that he was reminded of another
> Gryffindor who messed 
> up his hair the same way? Sorry for the poor
> paraphrasing. 
> 
> Didn't Harry (who saw James in the pensieve) tell us
> James was a 
> Gryffindor?
> 
> Elli

*Sniped*

I almost agree with the idea the Marauders were in
Slytherin and I cannot argue with the ideas.

In the fanfic 'Mirror of Maybe', the author goes into
why Harry should not be in Slytherin: 1)It would be
all to easy to assume he was the reincarnation of
Voldie 2)What would the other DE children do? 3) What
would the rest of the WW do if their savior was in
Slytherin? (year one) 4)How would the world react to a
Slytherin Parseltongue rather than a Gryffindor
Parseltongue? (year two) 5)Who would have believed he
did not get his name into the Goblet of Fire [as it
seems most did believe him at some point during the
year]? 6)He would have been arrested for going to
Voldie's comeback party and admitting it. (year four).
(All ideas come from Midnight Blue, not me)

Im going a bit round-the-bout, but if James Potter
was in Slytherin, it would be another incentive for
the hat to place Harry there.  Like Midnight Blue, I
think Dumbledore told the hat to place Harry anywhere
but Slytherin. Then there is the fact, Dumbledore only
ever says Harry reminds him of his father, and that he
is a true Gryffindor. That always struck me as funny,
as if Dumbledore was trying to convince Harry he was a
Gryffindor. If could be looked at as if he was trying
to distance Harry from his father (using the teenage
I dont wanna be like my parents!  idea). 

In summery, Im trying to say, by using Harry as a
model for Gryffindor and relating him to his father,
JKR is inversely telling us that Harry is being made a
Gryffindor, _because_ his father was a Slytherin. 

Chris <- who can almost convince herself that is true.

Did not the books tell us Regulus was in Slytherin,
but not that Sirius and Regulus were in different
houses?


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