Snape and Harry again.

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> MJ:  But there are references to Snape being "..up to his eyeballs 
in the
> Dark Arts..." and other similar statements, and we don't hear about 
any
> other House being so steeped in the Dark Arts but Slytherin.  If it 
walks
> like a duck and quacks like a duck...I guess I just never thought, 
given
> the comments in the book about Snape, that he was anything BUT 
Slytherin
> when he was in school.  Of course, that's just me.


Alla:

Yes, of course. Those references are there. But despite them I did 
think about possibility of Snape being somebody else besides 
Slytherin.

About Dark Arts... Do I need to cite one specific Gryffindor as an 
example? :)

Think about it, no matter how much JKR seems to dislike Slytherin 
house (and if we look at how she portrays it, I do agree with her), 
she cannot just leave it black and white at the end, don't you think?

Slytherins are bad, Gryffindors are good? Primitive, I'd say. Yes, 
the Slytherin ideology is horrible, horrible, horrible, but all kids 
in Slytherin are horrible too?

Besides, I so want to read about expression on Harry's face, when he 
learns that Snape was a Gryffindor. :o)

Even better, McGonagall becomes Headmistress at the end and Snape 
gets to fulfill his dream - being a Head of Gryffindor House(HAHAHA!)