Newbie intro + Marauders' Houses

[himitsu_seren at yahoo.ca]

No: HPFGUIDX 25787

Hello, my name is Seren. For fear of sounding like someone in a 
support group, I'll keep this introduction as short as I can. I first 
got into Harry Potter about 6 months ago on a $50 bet that I'd hate 
them. Half a year later and $50 poorer, I realized that I was 
obsessed with the books and began reading fanfic to pass time. I'm 
also on the cassie_and_rhysenn list and the PoU list, because I love 
the stories, and I'm most relieved to know that I'm not the only 
adult who gets odd looks on the subway because she's reading 
a "children's" book.


Now, as for the Marauders' Houses. I agree that it would be much 
simpler for all four of them to be in Gryffindor, and I also 
originally assumed that they would be all in the same House. However, 
while James, Sirius, and Remus fit well in the Gryffindor profile, 
Peter, the double-crossing rat, didn't. I strongly believe that he 
was in Slytherin instead, and as for his close friendship with 
Gryffindors, I think that's entirely possible. After all, with the 
canon Slytherins, they're hardly the nicest people in the world. 
Perhaps Peter wanted "big friends" to look after him, as Sirius said 
in PoA, to help him defend himself against his own Housemates? 


-Seren