Harry Potter: What If Snape Was in Gryffindor?
Super Carlin Brothers
J and Ben Carlin
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2026
⏱️ 20 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | February is full of flowers, candy, and lots of talk about relationships. |
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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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