MWPP and ...Snape?

[Robert Jones]

No: HPFGUIDX 88850

sabrinapotter asked why the question of which House James and the 
boys was in mattered.  I had been thinking in terms of just the 
shock Harry would receive, but del (message 88822) gives a better 
answer:

> 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 ots 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 !

Bobby: This also addresses what I think is the real objection to the 
theory -- not the points that have raised in response to my original 
post but the question of why Snape, Malfoy, and LV have not been 
taunting Harry with the news.  It could be that JKR is just saving 
the lesson that not everything is black and white for when he really 
needs it.