Sorting

[Joywitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 1966

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, Christina Gross <Changeling at d...> 
wrote:
> 
> 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. 

I am convinced that the 4 Marauders were in Slytherin.  The major 
argument for this has been because of Hagrids statement about all the 
Voldy supporters coming from Slytherin, implying that Sirius Black 
was a Slytherin (since at that time everyone is convinced that SB is 
Voldys main man), and also the cultural patterns of friendship at 
Hogwarts indicate that if Sirius was a Slytherin then all of his 
Marauder friends were too.  But another argument for this is that it 
just seems like the sort of nasty little surprise JKR would love to 
spring on all of us, including Harry.  Cant you just hear Harry 
saying *My father was in Slytherin?*

-- Joywitch