Ravenclaw and Gryffindor/Fawcett

[Rita Winston]

No: HPFGUIDX 2885

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, Melanie Moore wrote:
> 
> Melanie (who is wickedly picturing Hermione trying to stay on top 
> in a class full of Ravenclaws. Think they'd give her a run for her
> money?)

It cannot be that all the smartest students are Ravenclaws / all the 
Ravenclaws are smart students. Evidence: Hermione got the best 
grades in the class and isn't a Ravenclaw; Lupin said that James 
and Sirius were the two cleverest students in the school (modesty 
being his reason for not mentioning himself, irrelevance his 
reason for not mentioning Snape and Lily) and no one has presented 
any good reason to believe that they were both in Ravenclaw (and we 
do pretty well know that Snape was in Slytherin). It cannot be that 
all Ravenclaws are interested only in academics, as they have an 
adequate Quidditch team. (YOU know I'm a Ravenclaw, too.)

> PS:  Another Ravenclaw I haven't seen mentioned was a girl named 
> Fawcett (first name unknown).  We hear about her after Fred and 
> George tried to use  an aging potion to get to the Goblet of Fire. 
> Fawcett is one of two students Dumbledore mentions as having tried 
> the same thing.  We also "see" her at the Yule Ball when Snape 
> chases her and her boyfriend(?) out of the bushes. 

Two different Fawcetts: "Miss Fawcett, of Ravenclaw" tried to cross 
the Age Line (as did "Mr. Summers, of Hufflepuff" -- a relative of 
our talented Lori?). "Ten points from Hufflepuff, Fawcett" was the 
girl who ran out of the rose bush (and "Ten points from Ravenclaw, 
too, Stebbins" was the boy). Also, a "Miss Fawcett" (no House 
mentioned) was one of the students told to go away in CoS Dueling 
Club incident. I have Mary as the fifth-year (as of GoF) Ravenclaw 
who is Quidditch-mad and, despite being something of a tomboy (she 
was the one in the Dueling Club), having a fifth-year Hufflepuff 
boyfriend who shares her passion for Quidditch (so Harry, in my 
previous msg, didn't need to be afraid that she was chasing him), 
while Ellie is a sixth-year Hufflepuff who met her Ravenclaw 
boyfriend when he wandered over to see who is that pretty girl 
talking to Mary. 

Oh, about being neighbors of the Diggorys: GoF Chapter Six "The 
Portkey", the Weasely party meets up with Amos and Cedric Diggory, 
who ask if they are waiting for any more. Arthur says no: "The 
Lovegoods have been there for a week already and the Fawcetts 
couldn't get tickets." 'Lovegood' is a great name, isn't it?