Sirius' words about Snape WAS: What is poetic justice?

[lagattalucianese]

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> 
> Quick_Silver (who thinks it's odd Snape is all for fair play
doesn't 
> seem very Slytherin of him)
>
As I've said before, Snape doesn't seem very Slytherin to me, period. 

Let's put it this way: According to the Pirate Monkeys personality 
quiz ( http://piratemonkeysinc.com/quiz.htm ), based on the Myers-
Briggs/Kiersey personality typing system, Snape and I share a 
personality type, and are both rather extreme representatives of that 
type (I tested between 8 and 10 in all four categories in the official 
Kiersey personality test). That type is INTJ, one of the most 
intellectual and least social and politically ambitious of the types. 
On an earlier thread, I wondered what poor brainy, nerdy, antisocial, 
half-blood Snape was doing in Slytherin, with all those slippery, 
unprincipled, pure-blood Brahmins, and whether his continued 
association with Slytherin, first as a student and later as Head of 
House, was responsible for his distinctly unjolly outlook on life.

There is a similar Sorting-Hat personality test (I can't find it now, 
but you can get at it through the Harry Potter Lexicon), and it sorted 
me into Ravenclaw so fast it wasn't even breathing hard.

Which leads me to wonder it the Sorting Hat sometimes sorts students 
not into the house where they belong, but into the house it's told to 
sort them into. As for example, if Dumbledore knew he was going to 
need a distinctly un-Slytherin set of eyes and ears in Slytherin House 
in the not too remote future, might he not arrange to have Snape 
sorted there?

'S a thought...

La Gatta