House Prejudice, was Clue from JKR about Hagrid's House

[Meg Rose]

No: HPFGUIDX 22556

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Sam Brown" <find_sam at h...> wrote:
> Steve Vander Ark wrote:
> > JKR said in the Barnes and Noble chat that Hagrid was in 
> Gryffindor. 
> 
> Does it annoy anyone else slightly that Gryffindor is *such* a 
> prominent house in the canon? Most of the main characters are in 
this 
> house - the Trio (of course), all of the Weasleys, Dumbledore, 
> Hagrid, and the assumption is that the Marauders and Lily were (I 
> just know I'm going to be nitpicked for writing that... <g>). JKR 
> once said in a chat, IIRC, that she would be in Gryffindor, so it's 
> fairly clear she favours that house.


> 
I don't think that Gryffindor is favored, but the book DOES take 
Harry's Point of view and the Gryffindors is what he knows best.  
Think about it - members of different houses don't even know where 
the other common rooms are, let alone what goes on in their areas...