[HPforGrownups] Sorting

[Firebolt]

No: HPFGUIDX 1948

<If you take a close look at it, the Sorting is a very fishy thing.
For all we know Hermione would have made a good Ravenclaw and Neville
would have been quite comfortable in Hufflepuff. I think they all
ended up in Gryffindor because inter-house friendships are very rare.
For the same reason I believe the Marauders were all in the same
house. Maybe Lily was in a different house, probably Ravenclaw,
because she doesn't seem to have had a major part in the Marauder's
school adventures. Percy's friend Penelope Clearwater is also from a
different house, but they share being prefects.>

Of my two favorite fan portrayals of Lily, one had her as a Slytherin (yes,
there was a logical explanation for why a Muggle-born would be in a
supposedly anti-Muggle House), the other as a Hufflepuff. I sort of liked
the Slytherin one more, but in both cases the Marauders really weren't
following the 'Inter-House friendships only' rule. The first story is Cub
Scout by Moon, the second is all the fanfiction by Kay Willow.

~Firebolt