Harry Potter as a Slytherin

[whirledgirl]

No: HPFGUIDX 152772

Cacaia:
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1.If he [Harry] 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? 
2.Would he and Snape still despise one another? 
3.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?

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MAMMOTH!
Ok..this may take a while, so please bear with! ==D I've added the 
numbers to help keep things clear, hope you don't mind Cacaia!

1. This comes down to something *more* than just what is in the Harry 
Potter series. You have to consider whether you believe that 
the 'nature' of a person is the only thing that shapes an individual's 
personality, or if it's their environment, or both, and to what extent.
Taking into account the importance of choice and love, two continuing 
themes i've found in the HP series, and themes that would count for a 
Slytherin just as much as for a Gryffindor (+ all houses for that 
matter),I believe that Harry would have been 'darker' as you put it, 
but that he would not have become friends with Draco. Perhaps Harry 
would have come to despise Draco's arrogance, maybe Draco's family (or 
at least, the presence of his parents) would make Harry uncomfortable, 
considering how boastful we know Draco to be. 
If Harry found out the truth about his parents, as he has done, and 
before anything *major* happened, then perhaps knowing that his mother 
*chose* to die for him out of *love* and the hope of protecting him, 
HArry would get on the straight and narrow - so to speak.

2. Yes - he and Snape, IMO, would still despise each other. I believe 
this because Snape is more cruel to Harry than needs be, more so than 
he is to other Gryffindors, and this stems not only from what house he 
is or Harry himself, but from Snape's past. 

3. Maybe. We are talking parallel worlds here, the kind where cybermen 
could exist (TARDIS, anyone?) and where Ron and Hermione may never 
have become friends. (Remember, Harry wanted to go and find Hermione, 
in fact she may have well died that night otherwise - and then what?!) 
This would be a Harry without the two people in his life who we know 
have given him so much love, a kind that he had never known before 
(not to mention the whole Weasley family!!). Without this, he probably 
would not have felt as strongly about 'Hogwarts as home' as he does. 
This may have made him a weaker wizard (HBP - we see that a person's 
emotions can cause problems with their magic.), less able, maybe less 
willing, to fight Voldy. However, would Voldy even have accepted 
Harry, knowing that Harry was indirectly the cause of V's (to him) 
ridicule - the death of that body, and all the power he had started to 
accumulate (it's undeniable, "those were dark times, Harry - that's 
from the books and not the films, right? Damn W.Bros!).


WG*