Slytherins

[Kelley]

No: HPFGUIDX 2186

--- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Joywitch " <joym999 at a...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at egroups.com, "Sister Mary Lunatic" wrote:
> > What's amazing is that neither Harry nor Hermione has ever shown 
any> > indication of investigating James and Lily's school or life 
> history.  > you'd think > that four years in a nurturing 
environment like Hogwarts would lead > to a> > LITTLE curiosity about 
his parents' lives.  Hermione would be more> the type> > to do the 
research, but you'd think she'd pass on any startling > news (such
> > as one or both of his parents being Slytherins) to him by now.  
We > do know> > that Harry has never discussed his near-assignment to 
Slytherin> House by the> > Sorting Hat with anyone but Dumbledore.> 
>Such a lack of curiosity almost defies belief.

Do we know there's someplace that lists all the students that have 
ever been at HW and which houses they were in?  I can't recall ever 
hearing about any such book or whatever.  Do you mean "Hogwarts: A 
History"?  Since Herm's read it, she would have mentioned it, I 
think.  As for a lack of curiosity, Harry's been pretty overwhelmed 
by eveything he's learned, all the changes in his life (pre-HW), 
and , each year at HW, he's been pretty busy w/ whatever's been going 
on to have many idle moments to ponder it.  If he ever has thought of 
it, he probably assumes his parents were in Gryff.  Or Huff or Raven, 
but How could it occur to him that J & L could ever have been in 
Slyth?  Perhaps it never occurred to him to wonder about it (which I 
think is more likely), the way it never occurred to him to wonder why 
Nev was raised by his grandmother.  
 
> >We know he spends time> > looking at the photo album that Hagrid 
assembled for him.  Why> wouldn't he> > want to read the details of 
what happened the night his mortal > enemy,> > Voldemort, killed his 
parents?

Supposedly, what happened that night is a big mystery.  No one knows 
the details, no one alive anyway, except Vold.  Harry was only 15 
mos. old, I wouldn't expect he'd have memories, and only Vold is 
left, unless he had someone with him when he killed J & L.

 
> > Could JKR really be sitting on some bombshell and expect us to 
take > the news> > without questioning why it was withheld for so 
many years?  I > dunno.....

I think she's absolutely sitting on a bombshell, and she has to know 
we're questioning why and what it is.  I said this earlier in a post, 
but I'll say it again:  Because the 'what house were the marauders  
et al, in' info has been kept from us (and Harry), it has to be a 
bombshell.  If we finally learn they were in Gryff, people will 
think, "Well, Duh..." and "If they were all in Gryff, why was it such 
a big secret?"  Plus in SS Hagrid says "Suppose the big myst'ry is 
why You-Know-Who never tried to get 'em on his side before..."  It 
could be inferred they were in Slyth from this-- Slyths were Vold 
biggest supporters, so he wanted them all, esp. J & L, as they were 
so talented, powerful, etc.  ~Is~ a possibility.

> Ouch!  Sister M has punched a major hole into my theory that the 
> Marauders were Slytherins.  I will crawl back into my cave now.
> 
> -- Joywitch

Not at all.  I think this is as plausible as anything else we've seen 
in this series...

Kelley