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I haven't read all of the previous posts so I'm sorry if I repeat anything that's already been said, but I don't think I will
I like to think that Al would've ended up in Slytherin for a few reasons:
- Mainly, he doesn't want to live his whole life in his grandfather's, father's, or brother's shadow. His whole family is made up of brave, nobel Gryffindors, and being sorted into Slytherin would definitely make him stand out from the rest of the Potter males.
- I feel like Harry's personality was really split between his two sons- James seems to be the more boisterous, rambunctious, trouble-making, prankster-ish son; and Albus is the more mild-mannered, reserved, yet still very ambitious son. I picture James and Lily as being good at Quidditch and fun to have at a party, but I see Albus as more of the kind of boy who would rather sit inside and read (I read a fanfic once where Al admitted that he had absolutely no talent whatsoever on a broom, and I rather liked that idea). Now this would normally lead you to expect Ravenclaw, but I feel the other two Houses just would not suit him at all, he is too ambitous and too stubborn- he wants to be exactly like the rest of his family and be in Gryffindor, or make a statement and go the complete oppossite way- nothing in the middle will work. Sort of like Harry could most certainly have been in Hufflepuff of Ravenclaw, but the fight always seemed to be between Slytherin and Gryffindor- i think the same would go for Albus.
- I think Slytherin is still rather torn when it comes to the subject of where it's loyalties lie. I think the rest of the world still sees it as where all the dark wizards come out (and to some extent that will always be true, you can't change the past). However, in actuality, I think even people like Scorpius Malfoy (who I aslo believe would be a Slytherin) want to just move on and not have not deal with all of the anti-Death Eater prejudice that would most likely surround the house. And I think that Al would see the injustice of the situation and realize that he has the power to change it. If Harry Potter's on were to be sorted into Slytherin it would certainly make the rest of the world stop and think, and perhaps even stop the prejudice all together. It would also solve the problem of Al's ambition as changing the face of the entire Slytherin house would certainly prove to be quite the challenge...
- (This is sort of an idea for a fanfic I've been rolling around, so it's a bit more hyothtical than factual like my other reasons were but, essentially, I feel like it's definitlely a plausible reason for why Al would choose to be in Slytherin). And yes I said 'choose' because I think that after Al's conversation with his dad on the train platform he would see it as more of a choice on his part than a decision on the hat's part. And I think what really would have made it him start to seriously consider Slytherin as a reasonable house for him to be a part of is the fact that his dad finally told him a bit about the men he was named after, specifically, Snape. I think that Al would have, from an early age known who he had been named for, and over time he would have learned about the many great things that Dumbledore had done. But I think we can deduce from one of the Weasley children's (I can't recall which one at the moment) confusion as to why everyone was staring at Harry that none of the Potters or the Weasley's ever told their kids everything. And like I said, I think DD would have come up every once in a while in normal conversation, but I think Snape would have been too touchy of a subject to come up around the house, and too unknown of a subject to really come up outside the house. So I think Al would always have been curious as to why he was named after someone if they were never deemed important enough to be talked about (like the man his first name or the people his sibling's names came from). So I think the fact that Harry finally told Al that Snape was "the bravest man he ever knew" would have a profound effect on young Al. And it probably got him thinking- how was it that a man so brave that his father, the man who defaeted Voldemort, would deem him the bravest man he ever knew got sorted into Slytherin? Weren't all the brave ones supposed to get into Gryffindor? And I think it woould be this new realization that house to do not entirely define who you are and what you will become is what could lead him to go into Slytherin to prove that not everyone in the house deserves to be immediately labeled as a dark wizard or anything of the like. And I think it would also spark an interest in Snape that could lead to wanting to be a part of the house he was a part of. After all, if you were named after a man you knew nothing about and had spent the better part of your childhood wondering about, woundn't you want to learn everything you could about him.
So anyway, if you don't want to read through all of what I just wrote (and believe me, I wouldn't blame you), I think it would have been a combination of wanting to break out of the mold that every Potter beforehim had set, a new found pride in the man he had been named for, ambition, and a sense of righteousness that would lead Albus Severus to decide that Slytherin was, in fact, the house he was meant to be in.
This post has been edited by dominanttuba: Feb 12 2008, 10:32 PM
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Jan 21 2008, 11:49 AM
And it would be great to see him in HP&DH movie 
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We have in our trio three totally different personalities in Harry, Ron and Hermione. But all of them were Gryffindors. Albus Severus could very well be in Gryffindor and be quite different from Harry as Harry like you said, was different then James.
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That would be so akward and fun to read. 
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