What if...? (was Snape / Harry & Temptation / Healing

[chuckdunphy]

No: HPFGUIDX 161331

> >>Betsy Hp:
>> What I do think is that in some ways young!Snape is Harry without Harry's advantages. <<

> >>Marion here:
>> Brings up an interesting question.  Imagine if Harry wasn't the
Famous Harry Potter, but just an orphan living in the same
circumstances with the Dursleys.  He gets his letter and makes his
way to Hogwarts, but hasn't got the background, the fortune or the
insight that Hagrid and Ron gave him.  Would he have ended up in
Slytherin?  (Remember, the sorting hat considered putting him
there).  Would he have been an outcast and a loner like Snape?
Maybe he and Snape would have been much more alike in those
circumstances. <<

chuckdunphy:
The hat didn't finally say Slytherin,it was just saying it was
possible.  The hat hadn't made its mind up.  Also Harry conjured the
Gryffindor sword and Dumbledore said only a true Gryffindor could do
that.