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[Zara]

No: HPFGUIDX 167859

> Catlady:
> Among the cross-House romances in canon, We haven't seen a
> Gryffindor-Slytherin romance. The dislike between Gryffindor and
> Slytherin is so intense that I think Romeo's housemates would hate 
him
> for being a traitor and Juliet's housemates would hate her for 
being a
> traitor, and there is a LOT one can do against a person one hates 
who
> lives in the same dorm. I don't know long that dislike has been that
> intense.
> Also, regardless of House, a student whose friends were all
> pureblood-supremacists would be at least mocked by those friends for
> going out with a 'Mudblood'. 

zgirnius:
Right, we don't know how long the dislike has been that way. My own 
view, though, is that Romeo *had* no friends in his house at the 
relevant period of time, his final three years at school. At the end 
of fifth year, he was attacked by popular Gryffindors in front of 
most of the fifth year class (those who had been taking OWLs and 
stuck around.) Noone stood up for him except Lily, which I would 
expect friends, or dormmates interested in upholding House honor, to 
do.

(I borrow your names, as they amuse me, but I think it most likely 
that from Lily's side they were just friends, not necessarily even 
very close ones).

> Catlady: 
> I suppose if Severus thought that Dumbledore was mourning the death 
of
> Sirius, it could have stirred up his old jealousy.

zgirnius:
If Snape thought it, he saw something in Dumbledore I failed to pick 
up in my reading of HBP.

And I am glad to have provided some small amusement!