Was lily the reason snape was placed in slytherin?

There are many reasons why the Sorting Hat put people in a house :

- family tradition : see the Weasley hoặc the Malfoys.
- the student's choice : see Harry. I think Severus also falls into that category.
- the student's temper : the Sorting Hat wanted to put Harry in Slytherin because not only he had a bit of Voldemort's soul but because he has Slytherin traits (determination, cunning, resourcefulness).
- it may be a bit of all these reasons.

Eileen Prince was a Slytherin. Apparently, the whole Prince family, an old pure-blood wizarding family, had been there too. She must have told a lot of things to her son Severus about Hogwarts and the houses. He had been able to tell Lily and explain to her that the great house to be in was indeed Slytherin.

In Severus' case, I would add another reason. được trao what was to happen in the future, the Sorting Hat - whom I suspect to be a bit of a Seer - must have foreseen somehow the boy's fate. He placed Severus because the boy needed to be there, as Voldemort would only trust a Slytherin.

All this to say that I don't think Lily was the reason why he was there. Severus was already someone perseverant - with hoặc without Lily involved. He would have been sent there anyway.

Unless like Dumbledore, we may think that some students are sorted too soon... but that's another question.

That's quite a good thought-possibly because lily was the biggest thing in his life-he'd had a hard upbringing of course snape would have wanted to be in slytherin so the hat would have taken that into account but it must have seen him as a person too!!!!

No, Lily had absolutely nothing to do with Severus Snape being Sorted into Slytherin House. He was eleven years old, I don't think he was so persistant on persuing Lily. I don't believe that the Hogwarts Sorting Hat takes into account if one eleven-year-old has a major crush on another when deciding where that child is going to be placed.

I don't think so, no. Slytherin favors resourcefulness, cunning, and ambition. Severus liking Lily did not make him have those traits.

And the Sorting Hat looks at thêm than one aspect of a persons personality. Look at Harry and Hermione -- both had all the necessary traits of Slytherin and Ravenclaw, but the Hat decided on Gryffindor. It looks at what house the student would do best in and decides based on that. Lily had almost nothing to do with it, methinks.