Slytherins are bad (was:Re: Severus as friend)

[Carol]

No: HPFGUIDX 183479

Pippin wrote:
> <snip> Do you  think Snape would have been better off Sorted into
another House? Do you think he'd have been accepted there despite his
neediness and his grinding sense of inferiority? <snip>

Carol responds:

What "grinding sense of inferiority"? Little Severus firmly expects to
be Sorted into Slytherin, the House for "brains" (evidently his mother
has misled him somewhat), he already knows more "curses" (presumably
hexes and jinxes) than most kids six years older than he is (unless
Sirius Black is lying or mistaken, and I don't see why he should be),
and he seems confident that a Hogwarts education will insure him
success in the WW: "[E]ven with his poorly cut hair and his odd
clothes [little Severus] struck an oddly impressive figure sprawled in
front of [Lily], brimful of confidence in his destiny" (DH Am. ed. 666).

Carol, who finds that passage brimful of pathos and tragic irony