Ravenclaw Penelope (Was: Movie bruhaha)

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--- In HPforGrownups at y..., Littlered32773 at y... wrote:
> 
> "Steve Vander Ark" <vderark at b...> wrote:
> > 
> > > The incident in question isn't the spare robes. It's the fact 
> that Harry and Ron didn't know that Penelope was a Ravenclaw on 
sight. 
> > > They would have known that if she had been wearing all the 
house-specific stuff we see in the movie.
> 
> Doesn't Penelope have have long curly hair?  If she does, maybe her 
> hair covered her crest.  Since she was down in the general area 
where the boys knew the Slytherin common room to be, it seems logical 
that they would assume she was a Slytherin, even if they couldn't see 
the crest.  Maybe when she says "I'm in Ravenclaw" (thought it's not 
> allluded to in the book), she could sweep her hair back and they 
> could clearly see the Ravenclaw crest before she walks away.  

Or Penelope could have been walking away from them.  Ron *did* have 
to catch up to her in order to ask about the Slytherin common room.  
She could have turned around just enough to see that the person who 
addressed her wasn't in Ravenclaw, then turned around again to walk 
off.  If she was walking away from them at the start, they wouldn't 
have seen what crest was on her robes until she turned around to 
answer their question.

- Denise