James Potter's house

[Penny & Bryce Linsenmayer]

No: HPFGUIDX 11917

Hi --

rlpenar at yahoo.com wrote:

> But...do we know of any example where a child of a former Hogwarts
> student was not in the same house as their parent?

Well, we know siblings don't always get sorted into the same House.
Harry assumed they did when Colin Creevey was worried his younger
brother Dennis might get put somewhere else.  But, Hermione corrected
him -- reminding him that Padma Patil (Parvarti's identical twin sister)
was in Ravenclaw.

> Even more, other than Percy (Gryffindor) and Penelope (Ravenclaw), do
> we know of any (canon) pairings from mixed houses??

Cho (Ravenclaw) & Cedric (Hufflepuff).  The Hufflepuff (or Slytherin)
who took Fleur Delacour to the Yule Ball.  I'm sure there are plenty of
others that we just haven't heard about.  It doesn't make sense to me
that inter-House friendships & romances wouldn't form naturally.

> 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?

I think the Marauders were probably all in Gryffindor.  We've debated
this alot in the past, and at one point someone had a very good theory
why they might have all been in 4 different Houses.  And someone else
had good reasons why they might be all in Slytherin.  But, I think if
Lily was in Gryffindor, it was likely that James was as well (for
reasons I can't articulate other than JKR said Lily was in Gryffindor
"of course" -- implying that all the good guys are in Gryffindor).  I
preferred our more complex reasoning, but it seems she may have a more
simple answer on that question.  We'll see!

Penny



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