[HPforGrownups] Re: Slytherin's evil

[Jinx]

No: HPFGUIDX 1908


> Kelley:  That's true, not all people who were in the house Slyth
> became dark.  Interesting.  There is one point, I think in SS, that
> Hagrid says that there were no wizards that went dark that ~weren't~
> in Slyth, so I took this to mean that no one from the other houses
> followed Vold, but then wouldn't this mean that Pettigrew must have
> been in Slyth?  Maybe Pettigrew and the rest of the Marauders were in
> Slyth when they were at HW.  And Lily was in Gryff (because she was
> descended from Gryff-- AAAAH! Here I go...!).

I'm 100% certain Lily was in Gryffindor - to die for your child like she did
is a supreme act of courage.  Pettigrew - who knows?  Probably a Slyth,
you're quite right.  But I don't think the other three Marauders were.  They
seem more Gryffindor types to me.
James showed Gryff courage in trying to hold off Voldy, Sirius and James
seemed pretty courageous in breaking the law to become Animagi simply to
keep their friend happy, and then there's Sirius and Lupin telling Wormtail
in PoA "Then you should have been willing to die for us, as we would have
done for you."  These are not the actions of Slytherins.  Also, had Harry
been put in a different house to the Marauders (and the arch-rival one at
that) relations between them would probably not have run as smoothly as they
have done.

Jinx