Snape's housemates

[huntergreen_3]

No: HPFGUIDX 113516

Alla wrote:
>>Snape being in Gryffindor and somehow ending up with the gang of
Slytherins, because Marauders rejected him is one of my favourite
speculations.<<

HunterGreen:
Its one of mine too and it fits with one of my other favorite 
theories, which is that Snape and Lupin were friends for a short time 
in their first year. On the surface they seem to have a few things in 
common, both studious, both interested in the dark arts (Lupin must 
have had an interest in it to become a DADA teacher later on) both 
quieter than the boisterous James and Sirius. If they were in the 
same house it would make a lot of sense if they became friends at 
first, and it would explain Snape's lasting curiousity about where 
Lupin went every month (a fact that would be harder for him to find 
out if they were in different houses). At some point Lupin fell in 
with James and Sirius, and that might have been where the rift 
started: Snape was angry that they stole his friend from him.

Snape being sorted into Gryffindor only works if he switched houses 
at some point, however. Otherwise by fifth year he would have known 
that when Lupin left, Peter, James and Sirius were all missing from 
the dorm as well, and it would have been a lot easier for him to get 
them in trouble. Also, I don't know where Sirius/Peter/James studied 
to be animagi, but it would have been a lot easier if they had a 
different common room/dorm than Snape. Perhaps after the rift between 
him and James started, he started bonding more with Slytherins and 
asked for a transfer (if those are even allowed) to another house at 
the beginning of his second year.