Houses / Sorting "too soon"

[littleleahstill]

No: HPFGUIDX 173321

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Matt" <hpfanmatt at ...> wrote: 
(snip)

> I agree with elmntrymdr (in #172789) that the comment was also tinged
> with regret about how Snape's particular environment helped to shape
> him, and the pain that that caused, but I think that Dumbledore blames
> Voldemort much more than the house system for creating and exploiting
> divisions.  (Indeed, it would be a bit strange to look at Snape, the
> Slytherin in love with a Gryffindor, and conclude that it was the
> house system driving students apart.)
> 
> -- Matt
>

But Snape was love with Lily long before the Sorting Hat got to work.  
It was in part the malign influence of his house companions that led to 
their separation.  From the moment they sit at different tables Snape 
and Lily are severed.

Leah