[HPforGrownups] Visitation Rights

[Rowena Grunnion-Ffitch]

No: HPFGUIDX 26240


--- rose590 at yahoo.com wrote:

> Are the students ever permitted to visit each other
in their common 
> rooms?  

   Good question. Come to think of it the fact the
various common rooms open to passwords does  suggest
they are meant only for members of the House
 
>  Then it occurred to me
> that several 
> students had developed girl/boy relationships
> outside their houses 
> (ex: Percy and Penelope, who by the way we never
hear anything about 
> again after PoA).

   Presumably there are other places students from
different houses can socialize; the Great Hall, the
Library, the grounds, etc. Must be if interhouse
romances can bloom. 

  Since it seems as though there
> really isn't much 
> mixing of students outside their houses, wouldn't
> that also lend 
> credence to the argument that MWPP were all in the
> same house.  After 
> all, they would need an awful lot of time together
> to have planned 
> all their escapades and we already know that leaving
> a common room 
> after dark is a violation of school rules.

   Is it after dark or after lights out? If students
from different houses can spend enough time together
to fall in love presumably they can also form
out-house friendships. There are the double classes,
Quidditch matches, the dueling club and possibly other
extracurricular activities that we never see because
they don't interest Harry, Ron and Hermione.
   As for MWPP I find it impossible to believe Peter
Pettigrew could have been a Gryffindor, and if we're
to believe Hagrid's statement that only Slytherin
Alumni turn Dark then we must assume both Peter and
Sirius were Slytherins!

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