What house was Peter Pettigrew in?

[darrin_burnett]

No: HPFGUIDX 40805

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "mrflynn6" <mrflynn6 at y...> wrote:
> --- In HPforGrownups at y..., Leanne Daharja Veitch <daharja at b...> 
wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > 
> > What house do people think Peter Pettigrew (Wormtail) was in?
> > 
> > It makes sense that he was in Gryffindor with the rest of MWPP, 
but 
> if
> > so Ron's statement in PS/SS that "there's never been a wizard who 
> went
> > bad who wasn't in Slytherin" (or something along those lines) is 
> incorrect.
> > 
> > > --
> > Leanne Daharja Veitch
> 
> 

Mr. Flynn wrote:

> 
> We don't know that the Maurders were in Gryffindor.  They could 
have 
> been in Slytherin.  I wonder if the association of Slytherin and 
bad 
> wizzards in a more recent thing, espcially since Voldermort's 
rise.  
> Perhaps when James et al were there, Slytherin was just a house for 
> ambitious wizards like the sorting hat states in GOF.  It is also 
> possible that they were not all in the same house.  We don't see 
HRH 
> associating socially with many outside of their house, but they do 
> some.  Percy is dating Penelope from Ravenclaw.  Harry has eyes on 
> Cho, also from Ravenclaw.  Perhaps Pettigrew is from Hufflepuff, 
> being that he isn't very brave, ambitious or a very good student, 
and 
> the Maurders felt sorry for him.
> > --



The Lexicon tells us that it is almost a 99 percent certainty, based 
on an interview with JKR, that James and Lily were Gryffindor.

I further submit that the level of social interaction between the 
Mauraders indicates they belong to the same house. They created a 
rule-breaking map. They learned to be Animagus together. They spent 
countless hours together and that does not seem possible if they are 
in separate houses, especially one with the animosity between 
Gryffindor and Slytherin.

Further, the timeline in the Lexicon says that Voldemort's rise began 
in the early 1970s. James and Lily were at Hogwarts from 1971-1978. 
Most, if not all, of their school careers would have taken place at a 
time of fear and darkness.

This would HARDLY be the time to be open and friendly to the Death 
Eaters residing over in Slytherin. 

I realize it is fun to look for shades of gray and there is a serious 
culture of "Slytherins aren't so bad, just misunderstood" out here, 
but the Death Eaters were mostly descended from a Slytherin gang that 
ran together at Hogwarts.

The war with Voldemort has had some parallels drawn to World War II. 
It's very simple. The Gryffindor were the resistance fighters and the 
Slytherin were the sympathizers. Dumbledore was able to turn one of 
the sympathizers - Snape - to his cause.

And as soon as the V-Man disappeared, the smarter sympathizers like 
Lucius Malfoy began proclaiming "It wasn't my fault. I was tricked," 
just like some of the sympathizers in France and other occupied 
nations said after Hitler fell. 

I don't see future resistance fighters like James and Lily 
fraternizing too much with the enemy. 

Darrin
-- Sometimes the search for gray is so intense that the black and 
white right in front of you is lost.