Snape's housemates

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No: HPFGUIDX 113761

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "justcarol67" 
<justcarol67 at y...> wrote:

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> Carol, who wonders why people are suggesting that Snape might have
> been in Gryffindor. (Wouldn't he have fit better in Ravenclaw if he
> had to be in a house other than Slytherin?)


Alla:

Well, Carol, since you asked, I will restate it again, why i think 
that Snape could have been in Gryffindor.

The fact that Snape is a Slytherin Head does not really prove that he 
was there, we don't even know whether McGonagall was a Gryffindor, if 
I remember correctly.


Sirius' "he was part of the Gang of Slytherins". Ummm, why should he 
stress that?
Yes, sure, Sirius, Slytherins do hang out with each other, as we saw, 
Gryffindors, except in the last book, mainly do the same thing.

Why did Sirius said this infamous quote in the first place? Why 
stress it out for the readers?

For the same reason I think that communication between Sirius and 
Snape , whatever it was , which lead to the Prank, could show that 
Snape and Sirius were in the close proximity to each other. Why would 
Slytherin and Gryffindor seek each other out?

Of course, it could be that Sirius and Snape knew each other before 
school, which is the theory I also like, but what if they did not, 
then why, why, why Snape followed Marauders around in the first place?

I want to think that he wanted to be friends with them and was 
somehow misconstrued, not that Snape wanted to harm him since the day 
he saw them. Although I could be wrong, of course.

As you said, Snape is very brave and this is the quality which 
supposed to be dominating for Gryffindors. Sure, everybody has it to 
different extent, but unless I read that Snape is brave only to get 
something for himself, I choose to view his bravery in a  positive 
light.

The main reason I think Snape could eba Gryffindor is plot -related- 
I am adamant that Harry is bound to learn some surprised revelation 
about somebody's House association.

Before OOP I thought that Sirius could turn out to be a Slytherin, 
since that was not true, I still think that Snape as a Gryffindor 
could be the likely candidate.

Alla
I will not be surprised, if Ravenclaw was also suggested during 
Snape's sorting