MWPP and ...Snape?

[Doriane]

No: HPFGUIDX 88822

SabrinaPotter wrote:

> Regarding Harry seeing his father in the penceive and deducing he 
> is a Gryffindor.  I don't think he will make such a huge mistake 
> and from JKR's side, that would be quite the false trail to lead us 
> on.  She doesn't cheat.  They will have to explain, in great detail 
> why Harry mistakenly tought his father was a Gryffindor.  

As others have pointed out, Harry might just have assumed that his 
father was a Gryffindor. Harry is very good at making false 
assumptions, and he's not good at all at asking for information. It 
took him 5 years and an accident to discover that Snape indeed had a 
good reason to dislike his father. He always simply assumed that 
Snape was wrong and his father was an angel, and he never truly 
bothered to ask for more.

However, it could be that James was indeed in Gryffindor. But not 
necessarily Sirius, and it would affect Harry just as much to learn 
that his beloved godfather was a Slytherin.

> What I would like to know though (I missed the origin of the 
> discussion) is what repercussions would it have if James, Sirius, 
> Lupin and Peter were in fact Slytherin?

I think this is the only important question, and the answer to "why 
hasn't JKR stated clearly which House the Marauders belonged to 
yet ?".
I think the most obvious answer would be that Harry would be 
immensely shocked. He still has a very black-and-white vision, an "us-
against-them" mindset, when it comes to Slytherins. It might do him 
lots of good to discover that either Sirius and/or James was in 
Slytherin. He needs to learn to stop separating the world in 2 
categories, including at school.

I would just love to have Harry ranting against the Slytherins in 
front of Lupin, and then have Lupin lose patience with that childish 
behaviour and snap "You know Harry, Sirius and I were in Slytherin !" 
That would teach him so much about group discrimination !

Or even better yet : Snape whispering to Harry that "Lupin and Black 
were in Slytherin with me, you know, Potter". Harry couldn't look 
Snape in the eye for a week after that ! (I'm not a Snape fan, but 
Harry gets even more on my nerves than Snape sometimes).


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