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

[Kathryn Cawte]

No: HPFGUIDX 93214

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>
> As to being Head of House, I can't imagine your house as a student
> would be an important consideration for Head of House.  What if a
> professor was up for head and the available slot wasn't from his old
> house?  Or if the professor came from one of the other schools?
> It's my pet theory that Sprout was a Slytherin, but I don't have any
> canon for it.

K

I don't think it's compulsorily for the House Head to be from that house
(for the reasons you gave) *but* I do think it would be an important
consideration. Remember the kids are sorted (afawk) by personality type - so
the best person to understand them would be someone from their house.
Although we don't see much of it in the books, at a boarding school the
House Head would have a role in maintaining the welfare of his/her kids as
well as simply keeping an eye on them when it comes to work and behaviour. I
don't think Ron, for example, would be a good head of Ravenclaw or
Slytherin, but he *might* make a good head or Gryffindor. Obviously some
people would make good heads of other houses - Hermione might make Ravenclaw
(as would Remus I think), Harry might be able to do the Slytherin job (he
obviously has plenty of Slytherin traits - although as a half-blood he might
have trouble keeping the respect of the more brainwashed kids)

K