Regarding House Heads, what we know is that we never see Minerva, Fillius, or Pomona show anything but solidarity with Severus until he kills Albus. The strongest case is, of course, when they support his insistence that it was time Gilderoy did something about the monster.
We don't know exactly when Professors Sinistra or Vector joined the faculty. Or Madam Hooch or Pince, for that matter. One of their predecessors could have been Head of Slytherin during the '80s, or at least part of them.
While it seems unlikely that the instructor for first-year flying lessons/Quidditch referee could be a Head of House, if Hooch's predecessor had been, perhaps their instruction (and partiality?) could have given Slytherin an edge in the Quidditch Cup and thus the House Cup.
Having an older Head of Slytherin who retired in, say, 1988, with Snape only then taking the position after several years of teaching, certainly sounds more plausible than appointing someone who'd finished school so recently that some of his students remembered him as a student. And if the Board of Governors does have a say in House Heads, Snape having proved himself for several years first ought to work in his favor
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The Winning Streakjana_chDecember 3 2017, 02:01:24 UTC
On the principle of Occam’s Razor, I prefer to assume that Dumbledore, for whom good pedagogic practice is a low priority, simply threw his indentured double agent in the deep end and made him Potions Master and Head of Slytherin at the tender age of twenty-one. If so, the only noteworthy thing we know about Severus as an extremely young Head of House is that he presided over Slytherin’s seven-year streak of winning the House Cup beginning only three years after he took the job-a streak which would have continued had it not been brought to an end by Dumbledore’s theft of the Cup in Harry’s first year. I have put together a timeline of Severus’s early years as House Head
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Re: The Winning StreaksunnyskywalkerDecember 3 2017, 03:23:07 UTC
You're probably right about JKR's intentions. On the bright side, I guess 21-year-old House Head Snape teaching students he overlapped with would allow for drama...? Dumbledore was just being considerate to fic writers, yeah, that's it!
Good point that the Slug Club shouldn't have been run by a Head of House. In fact, that might be a good role for the Headmaster to fill. You know, if they had a hands-on headmaster. They're supposed to be enough above House divisions to administer the entire school, and presumably Headmasters are usually well-connected. House Heads could focus on cultivating their own students and then nominate them for the Headmaster's club in fourth or fifth year.
Headmaster Slughornjana_chDecember 3 2017, 07:20:35 UTC
Who’s up for an alternate universe tale in which Horace Slughorn instead of Albus Dumbledore follows Armando Dippet as Headmaster? Albus could go off and fight dark lords on his own time without wrecking wizarding Britain’s educational system as a sideline. Binns is gently eased into retirement; Hagrid is never promoted from assistant groundskeeper; Trelawney supports herself reading cards and tea leaves at Madame Puddifoot’s; Severus gets a dunderhead-free position as a potions researcher in Australia, along with an Aussie girlfriend and a nice tan.
Oh yes, and the Marauders: Remus is home-schooled; the elder Mr Potter is persuaded to keep his valuable heirloom invisibility cloak at home after he learns how his son has been misusing it; endless hours of shuttle diplomacy keep Sirius and his family marginally reconciled until after graduation at least…and Peter is ignored.
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We don't know exactly when Professors Sinistra or Vector joined the faculty. Or Madam Hooch or Pince, for that matter. One of their predecessors could have been Head of Slytherin during the '80s, or at least part of them.
While it seems unlikely that the instructor for first-year flying lessons/Quidditch referee could be a Head of House, if Hooch's predecessor had been, perhaps their instruction (and partiality?) could have given Slytherin an edge in the Quidditch Cup and thus the House Cup.
Having an older Head of Slytherin who retired in, say, 1988, with Snape only then taking the position after several years of teaching, certainly sounds more plausible than appointing someone who'd finished school so recently that some of his students remembered him as a student. And if the Board of Governors does have a say in House Heads, Snape having proved himself for several years first ought to work in his favor ( ... )
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Good point that the Slug Club shouldn't have been run by a Head of House. In fact, that might be a good role for the Headmaster to fill. You know, if they had a hands-on headmaster. They're supposed to be enough above House divisions to administer the entire school, and presumably Headmasters are usually well-connected. House Heads could focus on cultivating their own students and then nominate them for the Headmaster's club in fourth or fifth year.
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Oh yes, and the Marauders: Remus is home-schooled; the elder Mr Potter is persuaded to keep his valuable heirloom invisibility cloak at home after he learns how his son has been misusing it; endless hours of shuttle diplomacy keep Sirius and his family marginally reconciled until after graduation at least…and Peter is ignored.
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