... the "Prank" ? Reverse Psychology & Impulsiveness

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>Amber wrote:
> But I don't really think that Snape really fits the Phineas 
Nigellus model.  
> (Neither does Regulus Black, for obvious reasons, but he's not 
exactly a 
> Ravenclaw, either.)
> 
> Snape had to have turned against Voldemort sometime between the 
late 70's and 
> 1981 when Voldemort was at the height of his powers or getting 
there.  Even 
> Lupin in OOP is not sanguine about the Order's chances 
then....."the Death 
> Eaters outnumbered us twenty to one and they were picking us off 
one by one"  
> (I''m sure you'll ask why he knows.) One could also deduce from 
LV's words in the 
> graveyard that he was beginning to suspect Snape as a traitor, as 
well.
> 
> I wonder how long Snape sat under the Sorting Hat, and whether it 
might have 
> been the opposite of Harry's situation.  Of course can you imagine 
what Snape 
> would have gone through if he'd been sorted into Gryffindor?
> 
Potioncat:
I really should have snipped more, just couldn't and have my 
response make any sense.  I never thought about what was happening 
in general when Snape "came back."  Your post does show the courage 
it would have taken for him to do that.

Your suggestion that he might have had the opposite situation as 
Harry is very interesting.  We've come up with lots of similarities 
between the two of them.   And what if he asked for Slytherin, 
because he had already had a bad beginning on the train with Sirius 
and James? (They would have already been sorted into Gryffindor by 
the time it was Severus' turn)  What a possibility!  
Potioncat