James Potter's house

[rlpenar at yahoo.com]

No: HPFGUIDX 11904

> yael wrote:
> 
> > <snip>I further support that theory in assuming that James and 
Lily were
> > Head Boy and Girl together, and it hardly seems fair to the other
> > houses that both would be of the same house. <snip>
> 
> Lily was in Gryffindor (per one of the JKR chats in Oct 2000).  I 
don't
> think we have any idea what House James or the other Marauders was 
in at
> this point.  JKR hasn't said anything in interviews, and there's 
nothing
> in canon as yet.
> 
> Penny
> 
But...do we know of any example where a child of a former Hogwarts 
student was not in the same house as their parent? Even more, other 
than Percy (Gryffindor) and Penelope (Ravenclaw), do we know of any 
(canon) pairings from mixed houses?? Weren't both Mr & Mrs Weasley in 
Gryffindor? Do we know about Snape's mother (assuming, of course, 
that Lucius was in Slytherin)? It almost seems like a family 
tradition ~ in fact, perhaps this is why Lucius wanted dear old Draco 
to go to Hogwarts, so that he could continue the Slytherin tradition 
in the Malfoy family (since we never hear of any siblings that could 
continue this tradition). 

However, in thinking this through a little more as I write this, no 
one seemed to bat an eye that Percy and Penelope were together, so 
maybe it's not that uncommon to have mixed relationships. Following 
this through, if we assume that James was in a different house than 
Lily (who was in G), does the fact that Harry is in G mean that he 
has more of Lily's traits/characteristics? 

Becky