[HPforGrownups]Re: Snape's House (was: Homosexuality in HP)

[lifeavantgarde]

No: HPFGUIDX 104995

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "lifeavantgarde" 
<musicofsilence at h...> wrote:
> Alla said:
> > BUT, having said all that, I am fascinated by his character and 
I 
> do 
> > think that he has many admirable traits (courage, struggle for 
> > redemption, etc.. Didn't I tell you that one of my favourite 
> > assumptions is that Snape will turn out to be a former 
Gryffindor.)
> 
> 
> Hans:
> > Sorry to spoil your fun, but doesn't Sirius tell the Trio to 
which 
> house
> > Snape belonged? 
> > 
> > GoF page 577 ("Padfoot Returns") Bloomsbury 2001:
> > "Snape knew more curses when he arrived at school than half the 
> kids in
> > seventh year, and he was part of a gang of Slytherins who nearly 
> all turned
> > out to be Death Eaters." Then follows a very interesting list.
> 
> 
> Stefanie replies:
> He doesn't tell us specifically... (I've used this exact quote to 
> emphasize just the opposite.) Logically, since he hung out with 
> Slytherins and is now the head of Slytherin house, it's not a far-
> fetched assumption to say that he was a Slytherin in 
> school...however it has never been said verbatim.
> 
> Stefanie
> (who has had a "strictly-canon Snape essay" stalled by this quote. 
> boo.)

Stefanie clarifies!:
I take that (partially) back! Silly me was mistakenly hearkening 
back to the days when I believed the quote to be something to the 
effect of "hung around a gang of Slytherins"

::blushes sheepishly::

Apologetically and canon consorting religiously from now on,
Stefanie