[HPforGrownups] Re: Snape the Gryffindor or Ravenclaw?!

[Elihu Falk]

No: HPFGUIDX 93197

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<snip>GoF, US paperback p531 Padfoot Returns:
Sirius is speaking, "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."

I know our group can take that about 7 different ways, but it really sounds to me like Severus was in Slytherin.  

Sirius goes on to list 4 male names and Bellatrix as being in this gang.  So it could be that Rosier, Wilkes, the married Lestranges, Avery and Snape were in the same year in Slytherin.  He lists the others as having been found to be DE's (except for Avery who had claimed the Imperius curse and gone free) but goes on to say, "But 
as far as I know, Snape was never even accused of being a DE--not that that means much...."

Elihu:

He doesn't mention Bellatrix by name; he said "the Lestranges". After reading OP, and later re-reading this section of GF, I thought that meant Rabastan and Rudolfus, who at the time were Lestranges, and not Bellatrix, who was a Black. And Sirius doesn't say they were in the same year; it's quite possible that Harry may be in a "gang" of students including Ginny Weasley or Luna Lovegood of a different year.



Elihu
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