Marauders - character/sorting

[flying_ford_anglia]

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No: HPFGUIDX C7352
From: flying_ford_anglia
Subject: Marauders - character/sorting
Date: 8/20/00 1:54 pm  (ET)

I reckon all four Marauders were sorted to Gryffindor, but if I were to
place any one of them in another House, I might put Lupin in Ravenclaw.

I think it's clear that James was in Gryffindor, and, to my mind, it
follows that his closest friends would have been from the same House:
Sirius as the main sidekick and Peter as the inadequate one, who tags
along. Remus will have stood out from the crowd, and may have formed a
friendship with the others if he had been in another House, but I think
he was probably in Gryffindor too.

In my head, I make this broad, if bizarre, analogy Harry=James;
Ron=Sirius; Hermione=Remus; Neville=Peter.

I want to qualify my assertion that Sirius is an introvert. In fact,
introvert may be the wrong term in this case. I didn't mean to suggest he
is, for example, painfully shy, like 'a rabbit trapped in headlights.' I'm
thinking more of someone who keeps his own counsel and is somewhat
aloof in social settings. I don't think this is at odds with his being a
jokester or a woman-magnet. I see a clever, wry, humourist rather than a
slapstick funmaker (like one of the twins). Am I making any sense at all?

In response to my suggestion that Remus was also introverted, Catlady
asserts that this is unlikely because introverts are invariably scared to
open their mouths in front of a roomful of people in case they collapse in
a gibbering heap. This is a rather simplistic view of introversion; we'd
lose a large section of the teaching profession (and other 'performance'
professions) if all the introverts left. People are able to control
such fears of public speaking and may have other traits which can
counterbalance the more thoughtful aspects of their personality.

Neil is trapped in his own headlights