[HPforGrownups] Re: Social Correlates of Hogwarts Houses

[Barbara Key]

No: HPFGUIDX 175024

Debbie:
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It's no wonder that by the Snape
> era, Slytherin has become
> the equivalent of the Hitler Youth, or that the Hat
> thought Snape, armed
> with enough curses to defeat a seventh year, would
> fit right into
> Slytherin.  The Hat obviously put Snape in Slytherin
> because it thought
> Snape would like it there.
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To be fair, Sirius, who said that Snape knew knew more
curses than a seventh, isn't a reliable source for
what Snape knew or didn't know. How could Sirius know
what Severus had learned in childhood?

>From the minute, James and Sirius met Severus on the
train and overheard his comment about Slytherin House
preferring brains, they disliked and bullied him.

He didn't know curses before he came to Hogwarts, he
certainly needed to learn some quickly in order to
protect himself from the Gang of Four who apparently
delighted in picking on anyone they like.

Barbara