Snobby Snape?

[pippin_999]

> Mike:
> Right, but where did Severus go when he needed something, anything 
> for a response? He compared his brains to James' brawn, which in 
> modern times unlike Godric's times, is code for athlete instead of 
> knight. It turns out Sev was prescient in this comment as James does 
> become this "Quidditch hero".

Pippin:
But there's this huge Quidditch rivalry between Slytherin and Gryffindor,
so how can Gryffindor be the one and only jock house? And anyway,
how would obviously home-schooled Snape know anything about what  
brawn vs brain is a modern code for? 

Pippin
noting that Flint's Slytherin Quidditch team is heavy on brawn and
light on brains except for Draco