Harry Potter as a Slytherin

[Najwa]

No: HPFGUIDX 152760

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "minerva_523" <minerva_523 at ...>
wrote:
>
> I am new to the group, and have joined recently. Mostly I have just
> read the different posts, and replied to a few. So I guess this is my
> first ever actual post...so here's my question...
> In "Philosopher's Stone", the reader finds out that Harry has
> potential to be placed in Slytherin. In fact, he's Not placed there
> due mainly to his will against it. So- Were he not to have pleaded
> with the hat- If he was actually placed in Slytherin- would he have
> become the Harry Potter we have accompanied all the way until book 6
> thus far?
> Would he be enemies with Draco? Would he and Snape still despise one
> another? And, above all, would he have become infatuated with the Dark
> Arts and joined sides with Voldermort?
> In my opinion, he probably would come out a lot "darker" than the
> Potter who was placed in Gryffindor. I think he would, if not like, at
> least come to respect Snape and Draco. But, in the end, mainly due to
> the "prophesy", it is my opinion that he would end up hunting
> Voldermort down. What do you think?
> Cacaia
>
Najwa:
Interesting train of thought. I do think that considering how much
pain Harry has been through, that he might have had an interest in the
dark arts, had he been a slytherin, however I think he would have used
them  against LV due to the fact that most of the pain that has been
inflicted on Harry is either directly or indirectly because of LV.
Firstly, LV killed Harry's parents and deprived him of two people who
truly loved him and would have given him a happy childhood, and
secondly, due to LV killing Harry's parents, he had to live with the
horrible Dursleys and put up with their abuse his whole childhood. So
I highly doubt he would have joined LV's side. However, after recent
theories of Harry being a Horocrux of LV, I think that is the reason
why the Sorting Hat wanted to put him in Slytherin, and not because of
Harry himself.