Of Sorting and Snape

[sistermagpie]

No: HPFGUIDX 175472

> Dana:
> As I stated above, you actually diminish the power of the story 
> behind the Prince's tale, in my opinion that is, by undermining 
that 
> his own choices had the biggest influences on the life he had and 
not 
> his background or the lack of backbone to resist temptation. Snape 
> could have been everything he wanted to be or could have built his 
> own family if he truly had wanted it. Lily did not reject Snape; 
> Snape rejected Lily by following his own chosen path instead of 
> choosing her. He did so twice once with the sorting (to Magpie 
Lily 
> could not be sorted into Slytherin because of her blood status so 
it 
> was pretty much left to Snape to keep them together and he chose 
not 
> to) and secondly when he refused to reject the pure-blood 
> indoctrination supported by both his house and later LV. 

Magpie:
Actually, just to clarify, I wasn't asking why Lily didn't go into 
Slytherin. I was saying I didn't see why any kid should have to 
follow his friend into any house. If Snape had wanted to be in 
Ravenclaw, and after Lily got Sorted into Gryffindor he was still 
Sorted into Ravenclaw (and I don't think it's just as simple as 
requesting a house a friend is in--I think you do go in the house 
you're suited to beyond that as well) I can't see why that would be 
a problem. Students don't have to be in the same house to be friends-
-unless you're in Slytherin, because that throws some doubts on the 
kind of friend you'll probably be imo. (Not because the Hat does 
something to you, but because it says something about you by your 
choosing/being chosen by Slytherin.)

I'm also not sure why in your interpretation--unless I'm getting it 
wrong--Snape suddenly has this death bed conversion to seeing that 
it was all his fault and Harry is such a better person after a 
lifetime of presumably seeing himself as more of a victim.

-m (who thinks the superficial similarties between Harry and Snape's 
lives for than anything point up how very fundamentally different 
they are--Snape is Billy No Friends due to a combination of his 
circumstances of birth and life and his personality (which is 
influenced by same); Harry is a cool middle class kid temporarily 
stuck living with idiots until he goes to Hogwarts.)