What house was Peter Pettigrew in?

[lucky_kari]

No: HPFGUIDX 40817

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "darrin_burnett" <bard7696 at a...> wrote:
> OK, I consider this hairsplitting. First, the Lexicon states with 99 
> percent certainty -- that's a quote from it -- that James was in 
> Gryffindor, so I suppose it takes into account the sliver of doubt 
> that could be raised by the interview. 
> 
> Second, I consider a question -- What position did James play on the 
> Gryffindor team? -- to be clear. 
> 
> It would be like asking the question, "What position did Michael 
> Jordan play on the Bulls?" and then saying that simply 
> answering "shooting guard" refuses to confirm that he DID play for 
> the Bulls.
> 
> Further, we have, in PoA, Lupin and Sirius referring to Snape as "a 
> greasy haired Slytherin" and in GoF as "running with a gang of 
> Slytherin who all became Death-Eaters.
> 
> If the Marauders were Slytherin, why in the world would they refer 
to 
> the House as belonging to someone else? It doesn't conclusively 
prove 
> they weren't Slytherin, but it certainly removes much of the 
> remaining doubts. 
> 
> The Marauders started in 1971, about the same time as Voldemort rose 
> to power. By the time they graduated, a good portion of the 
> Slytherins, INCLUDING SNAPE, were on their way to becoming Death 
> Eaters. We saw what happened when Snape turned against Voldemort - 
he 
> is essentially a man targeted for death. Wouldn't any Slytherin who 
> stood up against the Death Eaters -- or perhaps even refused to be 
> considered DEs -- also have been put, at the very least, under a 
> cloud of suspicion?
> 
> So what you are saying is that the Marauders would have been 
> Slytherin, somehow turned against the DEs while still in school, and 
> then graduated safely at a time when the entire nation was in fear 
of 
> Voldermort? No, I think that is too far-fetched.
> 
> I concede there could be doubt as to whether all the Marauders were 
> Gryffindor, though I believe they were. But I believe there is loads 
> of evidence indicating that none of them were Slytherin. As for 
Ron's 
> statement about no bad wizard coming from anywhere but Slytherin, it 
> is either a bit of exaggeration, lack of knowledge -- he didn't know 
> about Sirius Black being bad until PoA -- or just another FLINT.


Add to this Lupin's Cheers to a Gryffindor victory, though I'm not 
supposed to be biased remark, and well...

Don't you think Slytherin was pretty full up anyway? We never see more 
than five boys in a class, JKR's population estimates notwithstanding, 
and we've already got the names of five male Slytherins of that year. 
Wilkes, Lestrange, Avery, Rosier, and Snape. (N.B. Wilkes could be a 
girl, of course, but knowing Voldemort, I don't think it's likely. And 
women in the Potterverse tend to be accorded their first names when 
mentioned. It's always Pansy Parkinson, Millicent Bullstrode, not 
Parkinson and Bullstrode.)

Eileen