Snape's house

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 94535

> Potioncat:
> I think Snape was in Slytherin.  It's hard to imagine  how a younger 
> Gryffindor could have hooked up with older Slytherins.  And if he 
> had, it would seem that the wording would have been, " he was in 
> Gryffindor, but he ran with a group of Slytherins..."
> 
> I will say this much, I've never understood Snape's jealousy of J. 
> Potter's quidditch skills.  If they had been in the same house and 
> competed for a place on the team, it might make more sense. 

Carol:
I agree that Snape was in Slytherin. It's almost inconceivable that a
non-Slytherin would want to join a gang of Slytherins or that they
would allow him. He has the cunning and ambition of a Slytherin and
he's now head of Slytherin House, a position that the likes of Lucius
Malfoy (a former member of the Hogwarts board of directors) would
strongly oppose being given to a non-Slytherin.

As for Snape's supposed jealousy of James's Quidditch skills, we don't
have any evidence of such jealousy from Snape himself. Isn't it Sirius
who attributes this jealousy to him? I can see Snape resenting James's
popularity, which (like Viktor Krum's) seems to have been based solely
or primarily on his Quidditch skills, without being jealous of the
Quidditch skills themselves. That emotion is attributed to him by
someone else (Sirius?), and I think we should be suspicious of
characters analyzing other characters' motives, especially Sirius
analyzing Snape. And certainly such jealousy, real or imagined, is
shaky evidence for assuming that Snape might have been a Gryffindor,
especially given the evidence to the contrary.

Carol