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Harry Potter: What If Snape Was in Gryffindor?

Super Carlin Brothers

J and Ben Carlin

Tv & Film, Entertainment News, News

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2026

⏱️ 20 minutes

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This show is sponsored by BetterHelp – Sign up and get 10% off your first month at BetterHelp.com/SUPER  This show is sponsored by Shopify – Go to shopify.com/scb to sign up for your one dollar per month trial! Today Ben dives into the Wizarding World of Harry Potter to ask: What if Snape was in Gryffindor?  Dumbledore says he thinks they may have sorted him too early, and Harry calls him one of the bravest men he ever met. Would being sorted into Gryffindor make him one of the Marauders? Would he ever become a Death Eater? Would the prophecy ever be overheard? 🦆☕ Ducks go in cups. Submit your own duck-in-a-cup video right here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1IWgf1dl2EkFnkg9K130FbZ-205Bl38Li?usp=drive_link  (Please read the rules first) #SuperCarlinBrothers #HarryPotter Written by: J & Ben Carlin Edited by: Ethan Edghill 🎟️ Through the Griffin Door LIVE Tour — Southwest 2025 https://supercarlinbrothers.com/events/  Southwest Tour Dates:  3/07: Denver, CO - Chapter 33: Fight and Flight 3/09: Salt Lake City, UT - Chapter 34: The Dept of Mysteries 3/11: Las Vegas, NV - Chapter 35: Beyond the Veil 3/12: Phoenix, AZ- Chapter 36: The Only One He Ever Feared 3/14: Houston, TX - Chapter 37: The Lost Prophecy 3/15: Dallas, TX - Chapter 38: The Second War Begins

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0:00.0

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0:09.0

Hey, brother!

0:11.0

Oh boy, here we go! What a question!

0:14.0

What if Snape was sorted into Gryffindor House?

0:17.5

Honestly, I feel like this one is not asked nearly enough,

0:20.0

given the sheer supporting evidence

0:22.1

from the characters in the series directly suggesting this possibility.

0:27.3

And I'm sure that a lot of that comes from the fact that Snape's secret of nature and triple

0:31.2

agent status means it's not really until the very end of the story that we learn what he's

0:35.5

been up to and what has been motivating him for all of Harry's life.

0:39.3

And by the time we learn most of Snape's character, it's too late to do much else with it.

0:44.3

Plus his position as head of Slytherin House and largely serving as Harry's like living, breathing, antithesis, makes it complicated to think of him as anywhere else, really.

0:52.3

But of course, as we all know, Harry does come around in the end.

0:55.0

You were named after two headmasters of Hogwarts.

0:58.0

One of them was a slithering, and he was the bravest man I'd ever known.

1:04.0

And Harry alone is a massive endorsement.

1:06.0

But when witnessing the prince's tale, Harry also sees that Dumbledore shares this same belief when he says,

1:12.1

And are you tempted to join him?

1:14.6

No, I am not such a coward.

1:17.1

No, agreed Dumbledore.

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