Marauders/My Friend Lee Anne Says

[catlady_de_los_angeles]

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From: catlady_de_los_angeles
Subject: Marauders/My Friend Lee Anne Says
Date: 7/28/00 12:24 am  (ET)

Most Wednesday nights, I go visit my friend Lee. The previous Wednesday,
she had borrowed all my HP books(feeling a need to reread), but I couldn't
take them back last night as her husband had decided to borrow them now.

Lee said it's about time we meet some nice Slytherins, since just being
ambitious doesn't mean a person has to be evil, there are some ambitious
people who are nice. (And some courageous people (possible Gryffindors)
who are evil.) I told her this had come up on e-mail-lists and passed
on the idea I'd read that James and his friends will turn out to have
been Slytherins.

Lee was quite sure that somewhere in SS, Hagrid had told Harry "Gryffindor
was your father's House", but we couldn't find that quote despite long
leafing through the book, to the great annoyance of her husband, from
whose hands we had taken it.

Further, Lee showed signs of disgust at the assumption that all four
friends must have been in the same House. She said she wanted them to
have been in all different Houses, showing that their friendship was
stronger than 'that stupid House system'. I asked if she thought James
had been in Gryffindor, Sirius in Slytherin, Remus in Ravenclaw, and
Peter in Hufflepuff (oh, up to them it was alliterating!).

She thought:
> Maybe:
> James - Gryffinder
> Peter - Ravenclaw (showing the evil potential of intelligence?)
> Sirius - Hufflepuff (shows great loyalty to friend's son?)
> Lupin - Slytherin (required ambition to get into Hogwarts despite
rules?)
>
> I'm not sure about any of this except the first: I just like the poetry
of four friends from the four houses. And perhaps that turning someone
into an Animage required bits of wisdom that came from all four houses.

I don't think Peter ever showed any signs of intelligence, or
studiousness, or bookishness (the latter is what I think Ravenclaw
is looking for), altho' we never saw him show any signs of Gryffindor
courage either: he was a scaredy rat.

I think Lee is wrong about Hufflepuff's virtue being loyalty; I think
Hufflepuff's virtue is hard work (which many writers would have heroized
in a very annoying way rather than making fun of).