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

[dumbledore11214]

No: HPFGUIDX 99986

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "potioncat" <willsonkmom at m...> 
wrote:
> snipping<<<
> >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


Oh, are we going back to my favourite little assumption that "Snape 
was a Gryffindor." It is indeed a lovely idea that he could have tell 
the opposite of what Harry said to Sorting Hat and be sorted to 
Gryffindor anyway.

I am going to ask the question to which I did not get the 
satisfactory (to me, of course :)) answer last time we discussed it. 
Maybe someone will help me understand it this time. :)

Why Sirius phrased his little description of Snape's house 
association that strangely - "run with the gang of Slytherin"?

Why woud not he say something to the effect - he was one of those 
(bad, horrible, whatever) Slytherins?


Alla