What house was Peter Pettigrew in?

[mrflynn6]

No: HPFGUIDX 40806


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> 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.


I have to beg to differ with you Darrin.  Although the Lexicon states 
that James is in Gryffindor, the interview does not.  A reader asked 
the question "What position did James play on the Gryffindor team"  
JKR stated simply that he was a chaser.  She did not confirm nor deny 
that he was in Gryffindor.  She does state outright that Lily was in 
Gryffindor.

Gretchen