Snape's house

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 94408

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "jlv230" <jlv230 at y...> wrote:
> Hello everyone – I have really enjoyed reading your thoughts on
> the books – it has given me a lot of interesting things to think
> about.  This is my first post so I don't know exactly how this will go
> down, or if it has been mentioned (or refuted) before, but I had a 
> thought when rereading the `Snape's worst memory' scene in OotP. 
> Following the world book day chat we know that MWPP were in 
> Gryffindor – that's four boys.  If there are five boys per house per 
> year (which isn't necessarily true), who is the fifth?
> 
> I thought that it may perhaps be Snape, which is possibly why he got 
> on James and Sirius' nerves so much and why Snape was apparently
> so interested in what they were up to.  Snape may have wanted to get 
> into Slytherin (which explains why he is now their Head of House),  
> but what if the sorting hat placed him in Gryffindor instead? If this 
> is the case, it seems to me that Snape must have had a pretty lonely 
> time at school.  The other four boys didn't like him (two hated
> him), so he had to hang around on his own, or with a group of older 
> Slytherins who spotted his potential, took him in and persuaded him 
> to be a death eater – which finally made him feel included.   He 
> perhaps deducts so many points from Gryffindor because he had a such 
> a rubbish time in the house and wants to get his own back on some 
> level.
> 
> I know it is a bit far-fetched, but what do you guys think?
> JLV

Although I agree that Severus would have suffered ostracism and worse
if he'd been placed in Gryffindor, I think that if the Sorting Hat had
suggested placing him there, sensing his un-Slytherinlike courage,
little Severus would have responded silently, "Not Gryffindor! Not
Gryffindor!" Severus would have known, I think, that the Gryffindors
would not appreciate his interest in the Dark Arts.

Carol